In the things you write, I see a clear analogy with Bernard Baars' Global Workspace Theory. Especially his writings on "Goal Frames" and "Frame Stacks" seem to overlap with some of your ideas on how shards bid for global dominance. Also not unlike Dennett's "Fame in the Brain".
GWT is also largely a theory on how a massively parallel group of processors can give rise to a limited, serial conscious experience. His work is a bit difficult to get into and it's been a while, so it would take me some more time to write up a distillation. Let me know if you are interested.
In the things you write, I see a clear analogy with Bernard Baars' Global Workspace Theory. Especially his writings on "Goal Frames" and "Frame Stacks" seem to overlap with some of your ideas on how shards bid for global dominance. Also not unlike Dennett's "Fame in the Brain".
GWT is also largely a theory on how a massively parallel group of processors can give rise to a limited, serial conscious experience. His work is a bit difficult to get into and it's been a while, so it would take me some more time to write up a distillation. Let me know if you are interested.