The article explores the question of whether an artificial intelligence (AI) system can attain human consciousness. The authors critically examine the current state of research in neuroscience, anthropology, and philosophy, highlighting the significant challenges posed by the limitations of computational power and the architecture of modern AI systems. The article proposes a distinction...
Experiencing, awareness, and being conscious of the subjective experience are familiar to everyone and invariably bear the stamp of subjectivity. This makes the concept of consciousness one of the most problematic in modern science; insofar as there is no satisfactory definition of human consciousness that has been developed yet. This article reviews the most popular approaches to the...
This review seeks to combine advances in anthropology and neuroscience to investigate the adaptive value of human consciousness. It uses an interdisciplinary perspective on the origin of consciousness to refute the most common fallacies in considering consciousness, particularly, disregarding the evolutionary origin of the subjective reality in looking for the neural correlates of consciousness...