The popular expectation is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon surpass the capacities of the human mind and Strong Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will replace the contemporary Weak AI. However, there are certain fundamental issues that have to be addressed before this can happen. There can be no intelligence without understanding, and there can be no understanding without getting...
The following fundamental issues of artificial minds and conscious machines are considered here: representation and symbolic processing of information with meaning and significance in the human sense; the perception process; a neural cognitive architecture; system reactions and emotions; consciousness in the machine; and artificial minds as a content-level phenomenon. Solutions are proposed for...
It is argued that qualia are the primary way in which sensory information manifests itself in mind. Qualia are not seen as properties of the physical world, ready to be observed; instead it is argued that they are the way in which the sensory system's response to the sensed stimuli manifests itself inside the system. Systems that have qualia have direct and transparent access to this response....