ENKINAESTHESIA: THE FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGE FOR MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS
International Journal of Machine Consciousness June 1, 2011 DOI: 10.1142/s1793843011000650 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 7 |
| Key points | Argues that enkinaesthetic awareness—the deeply felt, co-affective nature of intersubjective experience—is necessary for the affective enfolding that enables reciprocal adaptation and whole-body interaction, presenting a fundamental challenge to machine consciousness. |
Abstract
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 co-a®ective; it is enkinaesthetic, and only through enkinaesthetic awareness can we establish the a®ective enfolding which enables ¯rst the perturbation, and then the balance and counter-balance, the attunement and co-ordination of whole-body interaction through reciprocal adaptation.