Artificial Consciousness

Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Artificial consciousness

Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics whose aim is to define that which would have to be synthesized were consciousness to be found in an engineered artefact.1 The idea of producing an artificial sentient being is ancient and is featured in numerous myths such as the Golem, the Greek promethean myth, mechanical men in Chrétien d ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia II - Artificial consciousness - Testing for artificial consciousness Unless artificial consciousness can be proven formally, judgments of the success of any implementation will depend on observation. The Turing test is a proposal for identifying machine intelligence as determined by a machine's ability to interact with a person. In the Turing test one has to guess whether the entity one is interacting with is a machine or a human. An artificially conscious entity could only pass an equivalent test when it had itself passed beyond the imaginations of observers and entered into ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Consciousness-only

In Buddhism, consciousness-only (Sanskrit: vijñapti-mātratā, vijñapti-mātra, citta-mātra; Chinese: 唯識; Pinyin: wei shi; Japanese: yuishiki) is a theory according to which all existence is nothing but consciousness, and therefore there is nothing that lies outside of the mind. This means that conscious-experience is nothing but false discriminations or imaginations; a provisional antidote; thus, the notion of consciousness-only is an indictment of the problems engendered by the activities of ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Artificial life

Artificial life, also known as alife or a-life, is the study of life through the use of human-made analogs of living systems. Computer scientist Christopher Langton coined the term in the late 1980s when he held the first "International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems" (otherwise known as Artificial Life I) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1987. Artificial life - Nature of the field. Although the study of artificial life does have some significant overlap w ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Mind

The mind is the term most commonly used to describe the higher functions of the human brain, particularly those of which humans are subjectively conscious, such as personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence and emotion. Although other species of animals share some of these mental capacities, the term is usually used only in relation to humans. It is also used in relation to postulated supernatural beings to which human-like qualities are ascribed, as in the expression "the mind of God." Mind - Theories of the min ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Cognitive science

Cognitive science is usually defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence (e.g. Luger 1994). Practically every introduction to cognitive science also stresses that it is highly interdisciplinary; components of cognitive science include psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science, robotics, anthropology and biology. Cognitive science - History. psychology, neuroscience, Neural Darwinism, Society of Mind theory, cognitive science of ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Boomeritis

Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free is a 2002 novel by the philosopher Ken Wilber. The protagonist, who is named Ken Wilber, is a brilliant MIT student studying artificial intelligence. Ken believes that the future of evolution includes the departure of human consciousness from the physical realm, or "meatspace", and the merging of human intelligence with cyberspace. Ken ...

Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Sentience

Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousness—the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. The word sentient is often confused with the word sapient, which can connotate knowledge, higher consciousness, or apperception. The root of the confusion is that the word conscious has a number of different meanings in English. (One can easily distinguish the two by looking at their Latin roots: sentir ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Benjamin Libet

Benjamin Libet is a researcher in the physiology department of the University of California, San Fransisco, and is a pioneering scientist in the study of human consciousness. In the 1970's, Libet researched neural activity and sensation thresholds. His initial investigations involved determining how much activation at specific sites in the brain would trigger artificial somatic sensations, relying on routine psychophysical procedures. This work soon crossed into the realm of investigation of human consciousness; his most famous and co ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Psychology

Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = "soul" or "mind", logos/-ology = "study of") is an academic and applied field involving the study of mind and behavior. "Psychology" also refers to the application of such knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including problems of individuals' daily lives and the treatment of mental illness. Psychology differs from sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science in part because it involves studying the mental processes and behavior of individuals (alone or i ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Auton

The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and adversaries of the Doctor. First appearing in Jon Pertwee's first serial as the Doctor, Spearhead from Space in 1970, they were the first monsters on the show to be presented in colour. Autons are essentially life sized plastic dummies, animated by the Nestene Consciousness, an extraterrestrial, disembodied gestalt intelligence which first arrived on Earth in hollow plastic meteorites. The name comes from "Auto Plastics", the company that was infiltrated by the Nestenes and subsequently manufact ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Breathing gas

Air is the most common and only natural breathing gas. Other artificial gases, either pure gases or mixtures of gases, are used in enclosed breathing environments such as SCUBA equipment, recompression chambers, submarines, space suits and anaesthetic machines. A safe breathing gas has three essential features: it must contain sufficient oxygen to support the life, consciousness and work rate of the breather. it must not contain harmful gases. Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are common poisons in ...

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Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia II - Artificial consciousness - Consciousness in digital computers

There are various aspects of consciousness generally deemed necessary for a machine to be artificially conscious. A variety of functions in which consciousness plays a role were suggested by Bernard Baars. The aim of AC is to define whether and how these and other aspects of consciousness can be synthesized in an engineered artefact such as digital computer. This list is not exhaustive; there are many others not covered. A generally accepted criterion for sentience and consciousness is self-awareness: one dictionary defines conscio ...

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