arXiv Preprint Archive
May 12, 2024
Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán
The hypothesis of conscious machines has been debated since the invention of the notion of artificial intelligence, powered by the assumption that the computational intelligence achieved by a system is the cause of the emergence of phenomenal consciousness in that system as an epiphenomenon or as a consequence of the behavioral or internal complexity of the system surpassing some threshold. As...
Philosophies
July 27, 2023
Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán, Sara Lumbreras
3 citations
Consciousness and intelligence are properties that can be misunderstood as necessarily dependent. The term artificial intelligence and the kind of problems it managed to solve in recent years has been shown as an argument to establish that machines experience some sort of consciousness. Following Russell’s analogy, if a machine can do what a conscious human being does, the likelihood that the...
arXiv Preprint Archive
December 8, 2022
Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán, Javier Sánchez-Cañizares
Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theoretical framework that provides a quantitative measure to estimate when a physical system is conscious, its degree of consciousness, and the complexity of the qualia space that the system is experiencing. Formally, IIT rests on the assumption that if a surrogate physical system can fully embed the phenomenological properties of consciousness, then...
arXiv Preprint Archive
August 3, 2022
Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán, Sara Lumbreras
Consciousness and intelligence are properties commonly understood as dependent by folk psychology and society in general. The term artificial intelligence and the kind of problems that it managed to solve in the recent years has been shown as an argument to establish that machines experience some sort of consciousness. Following the analogy of Russell, if a machine is able to do what a...
arXiv Preprint Archive
November 30, 2020
Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán, Martin Molina, Francisco M. Mendoza
This work seeks to study the beneficial properties that an autonomous agent can obtain by implementing a cognitive architecture similar to the one of conscious beings. Along this document, a conscious model of autonomous agent based in a global workspace architecture is presented. We describe how this agent is viewed from different perspectives of philosophy of mind, being inspired by their...
arXiv Preprint Archive
February 2, 2020
Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán, Martin Molina
Recent developments in machine learning have pushed the tasks that machines can do outside the boundaries of what was thought to be possible years ago. Methodologies such as deep learning or generative models have achieved complex tasks such as generating art pictures or literature automatically. On the other hand, symbolic resources have also been developed further and behave well in problems...