From the Perspective of Artificial Intelligence: A New Approach to the Nature of Consciousness

Riccardo Manzotti () and Sabina Jeschke
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Riccardo Manzotti: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Sabina Jeschke: IMA/ZLW & IfU, RWTH Aachen University

A chapter in Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2015/2016, 2016, pp 525-548 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Consciousness is not only a philosophical but also a technological issue, since a conscious agent has evolutionary advantages. Thus, to replicate a biological level of intelligence in a machine, concepts of machine consciousness have to be considered. The widespread internalistic assumption that humans do not experience the world as it is, but through an internal ‘3D virtual reality model’, hinders this construction. To overcome this obstacle for machine consciousness a new theoretical approach to consciousness is sketched between internalism and externalism to address the gap between experience and physical world. The ‘internal interpreter concept’ is replaced by a ‘key-lock approach’. Here, consciousness is not an image of the external world but the world itself. A possible technological design for a conscious machine is drafted taking advantage of an architecture exploiting self-development of new goals, intrinsic motivation, and situated cognition. The proposed cognitive architecture does not pretend to be conclusive or experimentally satisfying but rather forms the theoretical the first step to a full architecture model on which the authors currently work on, which will enable conscious agents e. g. for robotics or software applications.

Keywords: Consciousness; Machine Consciousness; Multi Agent System; Genetic Algorithms; Externalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42620-4_41

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