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Susan A. J. Stuart

2 papers in the library · 7 citations · publishing 2011-2017

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Feeling Our Way

Oxford Scholarship Online August 24, 2017 Susan A. J. Stuart

Every action, touch, utterance, and look, every listening, taste, smell, and feel is a living question. But it is no ordinary propositional one-by-one question, rather it is a plenisentient sensing and probing non-propositional enquiry about how our world is and how we anticipate its becoming. Using the notion of enkinaesthesia, this paper explores the ways in which an agent’s affectively...

ENKINAESTHESIA: THE FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGE FOR MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS

International Journal of Machine Consciousness June 1, 2011 Susan Stuart 7 citations

In this short paper I will introduce an idea which, I will argue, presents a fundamental additional challenge to the machine consciousness community.The idea takes the questions surrounding phenomenology, qualia and phenomenality one step further into the realm of intersubjectivity but with a twist, and the twist is this: that an agent's intersubjective experience is deeply felt and necessarily...