ABSTRACT
Like humans, Zda sends off “attention pulses” to detect the world. Thus, the world consists of discrete frames in Zda's view. We humans like to fill in the blanks between these frames with our imagination. Zda experiences and learns about the world based on his attention. Attention allows Zda to focus on a small number of things so that he can learn and deal with them effectively. Therefore, the cognitive agent must have an attention mechanism for learning and response. In Zda's architecture, attention is classified into three types: subconscious, conscious, and associative.
