29 Feb arousal

Webster defines arouse as: “1) to awaken from sleep; 2) to stir as to action or strong feeling; 3) to evoke (some action or feeling); excite [to arouse pity] –vi. to become aroused.” In the context of cybernetics, we may be concerned with setting a computer’s level of readiness to receive input, or the computer’s mechanism for interpreting input based on contextual cues.
Keywords: sense
sensory
perception
consciousness
attention
References: cognition
learning
pattern recognition