Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2022
Subhash Kak
This paper considers several aspects of the relationship between size, structure, speed of propagation and the number of autonomous cognitive agents in a neural network. While memory and function generation capacities of neural networks with scale-invariant structure have been investigated extensively, the number of autonomous agents, associated with the simultaneous processing of the...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2022
Theodor Nenu
Hofstadter [ 1979 , 2007 ] offered a novel Gödelian proposal which purported to reconcile the apparently contradictory theses that (1) we can talk, in a non-trivial way, of mental causation being a real phenomenon and that (2) mental activity is ultimately grounded in low-level rule-governed neural processes. In this paper, we critically investigate Hofstadter’s analogical appeals to Gödel’s [...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2022
Marc Ebner
If one had a full understanding of consciousness then it should be possible to create artificial consciousness. It is frequently argued that qualia are subjective and are impossible to re-create artificially. However, qualia are grounded in reality and therefore are not arbitrary. We show this for the quale color. The perceived color corresponds to a three-dimensional value that describes the...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
October 25, 2021
E.c. Garrido-Merchán, M. Molina, Francisco M. Mendoza-Soto
4 citations
This work seeks to study the beneficial properties that an autonomous agent can obtain by imitating a cognitive architecture similar to that of conscious beings. Throughout this document, a cognitive model of an autonomous agent-based in a global workspace architecture is presented. We hypothesize that consciousness is an evolutionary advantage, so if our autonomous agent can be potentially...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
October 13, 2021
Wenjie Huang, Antonio Chella, Angelo Cangelosi
There are many developed theories and implemented artificial systems in the area of machine consciousness, while none has achieved that. For a possible approach, we are interested in implementing a system by integrating different theories. Along this way, this paper proposes a model based on the global workspace theory and attention mechanism, and providing a fundamental framework for our...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2021
David Gamez
A systematic understanding of the relationship between intelligence and consciousness can only be achieved when we can accurately measure intelligence and consciousness. In other work, I have suggested how the measurement of consciousness can be improved by reframing the science of consciousness as a search for mathematical theories that map between physical and conscious states. This paper...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2021
Zohar Z Bronfman, Simona Ginsburg, Eva Jablonka
The current failure to construct an artificial intelligence (AI) agent with the capacity for domain-general learning is a major stumbling block in the attempt to build conscious robots. Taking an evolutionary approach, we previously suggested that the emergence of consciousness was entailed by the evolution of an open-ended domain-general form of learning, which we call unlimited associative...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2021
Robin L. Zebrowski, Eli B. McGraw
Within artificial intelligence (AI) and machine consciousness research, social cognition as a whole is often ignored. When it is addressed, it is often thought of as one application of more traditional forms of cognition. However, while theoretical approaches to AI have been fairly stagnant in recent years, social cognition research has progressed in productive new ways, specifically through...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2021
Carlos Montemayor
Contemporary debates on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) center on what philosophers classify as descriptive issues. These issues concern the architecture and style of information processing required for multiple kinds of optimal problem-solving. This paper focuses on two topics that are central to developing AGI regarding normative, rather than descriptive, requirements for AGIs epistemic...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
July 14, 2021
Hongzhi Wang, Bozhou Chen, Yueyang Xu et al.
1 citation
The major criteria to distinguish conscious Artificial Intelligence (AI) and non-conscious AI is whether the conscious is from the needs. Based on this criteria, we develop ConsciousControlFlow(CCF) to show the need-based conscious AI. The system is based on the computational model with a short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) for consciousness and the hierarchy of needs. To...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
March 1, 2021
Tarek R. Besold, Lorijn Zaadnoordijk, David Vernon
For humans, phenomenal experiences take up a central role in their daily interaction with the world. In this paper, we argue in favor of shifting phenomenal experiences into the focus of cognitive systems research and development. Instead of aiming to make artificial systems feel in the same way humans do, we focus on the possibilities of engineering capacities that are functionally equivalent...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
March 1, 2021
Bernhard J. Mitterauer
Brain-inspired models for conscious robots should refer to the cellular double structure of the brain, consisting of the neuronal system and the glial system, embodying two ontological realms. Therefore, a purely neurobiological approach to machine consciousness is biased by an ontological fault in exclusively referring to the neuronal system. The brain model for self-observing agents outlined...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
March 1, 2021
Thomas Metzinger
This paper has a critical and a constructive part. The first part formulates a political demand, based on ethical considerations: Until 2050, there should be a global moratorium on synthetic phenomenology, strictly banning all research that directly aims at or knowingly risks the emergence of artificial consciousness on post-biotic carrier systems. The second part lays the first conceptual...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
March 1, 2021
Zachariah A Neemeh, Christian Kronsted, Sean Kugele et al.
A body schema is an agent’s model of its own body that enables it to act on affordances in the environment. This paper presents a body schema system for the Learning Intelligent Decision Agent (LIDA) cognitive architecture. LIDA is a conceptual and computational implementation of Global Workspace Theory, also integrating other theories from neuroscience and psychology. This paper contends that...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2020
Riccardo Manzotti, Antonio Chella
The scope of the paper is to encourage scientists and engineering to avoid to do what Einstein pointed out as being the hallmark of folly. Machine consciousness scholars must be brave enough to step out of the beaten path. There must be some big recurrent conceptual mistakes that prevent science and technology from addressing machine consciousness.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2020
R. Sanz, Esther Aguado
The domain of machine consciousness is a melting pot of computers, robots, neuropsychology, sociology and philosophy. This is both an opportunity and a serious risk of stagnation in entertaining but never-ending discussions that may prove useless concerning the construction of better machines. This paper analyzes this situation, defends an engineering approach to machine consciousness research...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2020
Selmer Bringsjord, G. Naveen Sundar
We provide an overview of the theory of cognitive consciousness (TCC), and of [Formula: see text]; the latter provides a means of measuring the amount of cognitive consciousness present in a given cognizer, whether natural or artificial, at a given time, along a number of different dimensions. TCC and [Formula: see text] stand in stark contrast to Tononi’s Integrated information Theory (IIT)...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2020
Ron Chrisley
Previous work [Chrisley & Sloman, 2016, 2017] has argued that a capacity for certain kinds of meta-knowledge is central to modeling consciousness, especially the recalcitrant aspects of qualia, in computational architectures. After a quick review of that work, this paper presents a novel objection to Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument (KA) against physicalism, an objection in which such...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2020
Henry Shevlin
The science of consciousness has made great strides in recent decades. However, the proliferation of competing theories makes it difficult to reach consensus about artificial consciousness. While for purely scientific purposes we might wish to adopt a ‘wait and see’ attitude, we may soon face practical and ethical questions about whether, for example, agents artificial systems are capable of...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2020
Pei Wang
This paper describes the consciousness-related aspects of the AGI system NARS, discusses the implications of this design and compares it with other relevant theories and designs. It is argued that the function of consciousness is self-awareness and self-control, and the phenomenal aspect of consciousness is the first-person perspective of the same process for which the functional aspect is the...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
April 29, 2020
G. Ng, Wang Chi. Leung
In the last 10 years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen successes in fields such as natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, robotics and autonomous systems. However, t...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
March 1, 2020
A. Agarwal, S. Edelman
Insofar as consciousness has a functional role in facilitating learning and behavioral control, the builders of autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are likely to attempt to incorporate it into their designs. The extensive literature on the ethics of AI is concerned with ensuring that AI systems, and especially autonomous conscious ones, behave ethically. In contrast, our focus here...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
March 1, 2020
Damien Patrick Williams, John D. Murray
This report introduces the activities of eight one-week workshops that were held during the summer of 2017 on the topic “Technology and Consciousness.” Participants in the series of workshops approached the subject from many different perspectives, with the overall goal of exploring the possibility of machine consciousness, and assessing its potential implications. The body of this initial...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
March 1, 2020
David Gamez
This paper explores some of the potential connections between natural and artificial intelligence and natural and artificial consciousness. In humans we use batteries of tests to indirectly measure intelligence. This approach breaks down when we try to apply it to radically different animals and to the many varieties of artificial intelligence. To address this issue people are starting to...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
March 1, 2020
Pentti O. A. Haikonen
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...