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Kitajima, M., Toyota, M., Dinet, J., and Nakahira, K.T. (2025)

Kitajima, M., Toyota, M., Dinet, J., and Nakahira, K.T. (2025). Transforming Conscious Goals into Unconscious Actions in Real-world Interactions: Real-world Use of Behavioral Ecological Memes via GOMS. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, 18, 173-186.

 

Transforming Conscious Goals into Unconscious Actions in Real-world Interactions: Real-world Use of Behavioral Ecological Memes via GOMS

Our daily actions are executed to achieve desired states. Perceiving our own situation, we select actions that are expected to realize the desired states and successively execute them. The memory used in this process is a representation in the brain in the form of memes that are passed on from generation to generation. Memes are structured into three levels - action, behavioral, and cultural - and are acquired through mimetic behavior. Higher-level memes are acquired as one gets older. This study draws on the Model Human Processor with Real-time Constraints (MHP/RT), a cognitive architecture that includes perceptual, cognitive, and motor (PCM) processes, and a memory system that is used during action selection by the PCM process and updated after action execution. We examine how the cognitive process of Two Minds utilizes memes structured in the three layers, termed C-resonance in MHP/RT. Meanwhile, knowledge built as a result of iterative actions toward a goal state is represented by a GOMS hierarchical structure comprising goals (G), operators (O), methods (M), and selection rules (S). We show that GOMS bundles memes belonging to different levels, combining goals and selection rules at the conscious level with methods and operators at the unconscious level to achieve effective and efficient goal- oriented action execution. The expressed behavior can be regarded as the result of crossing the syntax expressed by GOMS with the semantics expressed by memes, showing distinct characteristics depending on the balance of dominance between unconscious and conscious behaviors in the behavioral ecology. By examining the behavioral ecology from the perspective of GOMS, we can see how static memes are implemented in a dynamic behavioral ecology and how behaviors with guaranteed corporality are expressed.

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