Conscious Intelligent Systems - Part 1 : I X I
U. Gayathree
arXiv Preprint Archive December 9, 2006 preprint
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Cs.ai Consciousness evolution Mind evolution Self-awareness development Cognitive evolution Emergent consciousness Evolution of consciousness Origin of consciousness Artificial intelligence Computational intelligence Learning systems Machine intelligence Natural intelligence Biological intelligence Intelligence theory Human mind origin Cognitive origins Self-awareness genesis Mind emergence Human intelligence evolution Origin of self |
| Key points | Proposes that conscious intelligent systems in natural environments arose through a co-evolutionary path, and that a learning system perspective can explain diverse natural phenomena including human self-consciousness and looping thought processes. |
Abstract
Did natural consciousness and intelligent systems arise out of a path that was co-evolutionary to evolution? Can we explain human self-consciousness as having risen out of such an evolutionary path? If so how could it have been? In this first part of a two-part paper (titled IXI), we take a learning system perspective to the problem of consciousness and intelligent systems, an approach that may look unseasonable in this age of fMRI's and high tech neuroscience. We posit conscious intelligent systems in natural environments and wonder how natural factors influence their design paths. Such a perspective allows us to explain seamlessly a variety of natural factors, factors ranging from the rise and presence of the human mind, man's sense of I, his self-consciousness and his looping thought processes to factors like reproduction, incubation, extinction, sleep, the richness of natural behavior, etc. It even allows us to speculate on a possible human evolution scenario and other natural phenomena.