The consciousness of intelligent systems has been discussed for decades. The ongoing developments of Artificial Intelligence make this concept even more crucial. We review and discuss recent views of the consciousness of artificial systems, mainly based on theories of the consciousness of human beings taking into account phenomenal consciousness, access consciousness and computational...
Earlier articles have suggested that physical systems with inherent quantum processes could be capable of producing hypercomplex system states. These system states could have special energy states, which are referred to as hypercomplex energy states because they cannot be measured, although they physically exist and could even store information. Hypercomplex system states could be aggregated...
This theoretical article presents a heuristic viewpoint that shows that the inner states of consciousness experienced by every human being may have a physical, but imaginary, hypercomplex basis. The central idea is that human consciousness is fundamentally based on physical processes and does not require any chemical, biological or other properties of an unknown type of vitality. However,...