Summary
Contained here are the scans of hundreds of hand-drawn sketches that I drew while creating my working memory / AI architecture model. The finished figures were created using Adobe Illustrator and can be found at aithought.com. However, I wanted to post the doodles and sketches that helped me conceive the model and design the figures. I created these from 2010 to 2025. The drawings are shown here in reverse chronological order. The main exception to this ordering is the first 5 pages which I created in 2010 to outline the model and what it was trying to accomplish. Copious notes about the model can be found after the sketches. Taken together, these drawings and writings show how the ideas formed and coalesced in my mind. Many of the drawings and much of the writing depict cognitive concepts and relationships that I never got around to publishing, so I would like to think this PDF does contain serviceable ideas that could be fleshed out further.
Finished articles created from these initial designs can be found here:
Reser, J. E. (2011). What determines belief: The philosophy, psychology and neuroscience of belief formation and change. Saarbrucken, Germany: Verlag Dr. Muller.
Reser, J. E. (2022). A Cognitive Architecture for Machine Consciousness and Artificial Superintelligence: Updating Working Memory Iteratively, 2022-2024 arXiv:2203.17255
Reser, J. E. (2022). Artificial intelligence software structured to simulate human working memory, mental imagery, and mental continuity. arXiv:2204.05138
Reser, J. E. (2016). Incremental change in the set of coactive cortical assemblies enables mental continuity. Physiology and Behavior, 167(1), 222-237
Reser, J. E. (2013). The neurological process responsible for mental continuity: Reciprocating transformations between a working memory updating function and an imagery generation system. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Conference. San Diego CA, July 12-15
Jared Edward Reser Ph.D. 