Can the imaginary brains described in Chapter 1 have only representations of perceived patterns, objects, and events? Can hierarchical structures of neurons also represent feelings, beliefs, emotions, and other higher mental states? Creating feelings requires giving emotional perceptions, memories, plans, beliefs, and intentions. How can this be achieved? How are perceived objects and events...
In this chapter, wet consciousness and dry consciousness will be defined. For doing the definitions, it illustrates the differences between wet consciousness and dry consciousness under the understandings at present. Wet consciousness is a living creature brain and dry consciousness is an entity made by a digital computer. Naturally, consciousness itself is also argued on what it is and on its...
This chapter introduces an artificial entity, which may have a consciousness state. The ideas of first person and second person in this book chapter will be cored and used basically for an implementation of the entity. First, a general description of the entity will be argued and discussed again by using the notions in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7. And then the general structure of the entity will...
Consciousness studies have nowadays become a general and an open question in the research areas. As the result of this situation, there are many research papers on this topic. Under this situation, it is worthwhile considering a present direction and a reason of those studies in order to find out a next direction and the reason for the further research. Then, from those the direction and the...