A.2 Glossary of Specialized Terms 329 the weight of evidence and k is a parameter. In the case of an Indefinite Truth Value, the confidence is associated with the width of the probability interval. e Confidence Decay: The process by which the confidence of an Atom decreases over time, as the observations on which the Atom’s truth value is based become increasingly obsolete. This may be carried out by a special MindAgent. The rate of confidence decay is subtle and contextually determined, and must be estimated via inference rather than simply assumed a priori. e Consciousness: CogPrime is not predicated on any particular conceptual theory of con- sciousness. Informally, the AttentionalFocus is sometimes referred to as the “conscious” mind of a CogPrime system, with the rest of the Atomspace as “unconscious” but this is just an informal usage, not intended to tie the CogPrime design to any particular theory of consciousness. The primary originator of the CogPrime design (Ben Goertzel) tends toward panpsychism, as it happens. e Context: In addition to its general common-sensical meaning, in CogPrime the term Con- text also refers to an Atom that is used as the first argument of a ContextLink. The second argument of the ContextLink then contains Links or Nodes, with TruthValues calculated restricted to the context defined by the first argument. For instance, (ContextLink USA (InheritanceLink person obese )). e Core: The MindOS portion of OpenCog, comprising the Atomspace, the CogServer, and other associated “infrastructural” code. e Corrective Learning: When an agent learns how to do something, by having another agent explicitly guide it in doing the thing. For instance, teaching a dog to sit by pushing its butt to the ground. e CSDLN: (Compositional Spatiotemporal Deep Learning Network): A hierarchical pattern recognition network, in which each layer corresponds to a certain spatiotemporal granularity, the nodes on a given layer correspond to spatiotemporal regio