Artificial Consciousness as a Platform for Artificial General Intelligence
Ryota Kanai, Ippei Fujisawa, Shinya Tamai et al. preprint
In this paper, we propose a hypothesis that consciousness has evolved to serve as a platform for general intelligence. This idea stems from considerations of potential biological functions of consciousness. Here we define general intelligence as the ability to apply knowledge and models acquired from past experiences to generate solutions to novel problems. Based on this definition, we propose...