Functionally Specialized Unit

From AGIRI.org

A subsystem of a Mind that is devoted to some particular sort of activity, such as, e.g.

Perception, either in general or focused on some particular Sensory Modality
Short Term Working Memory
Language processing
etc.

Different minds may be divided into such units in different ways. This kind of division into units is a common and perhaps necessary feature of Modest Resources Minds, as Modularization is a generally powerful heuristic for increasing efficiency given limited resources.
The way a type of Mind breaks up into Functionally Specialized Units is known as its Cognitive Architecture.

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