Post edited by: Raúl, at: 2006/11/13 13:13 I’m about to finish reading the book Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett (1991). Although I have seen some critics against Dennett’s approach I think this book is a really valuable resource for…
Month: September 2008
Theatre of the Mind. Raising the curtain on consciousness. Jay Ingram (2005). Reviewed: 2007/09/18 13:13. This book by Jay Ingram is published by Harper Collins Canada (2005). This is the last book I’ve read about consciousness, and I can recommend…
The Making of Memory by Steven Rose This is not a book on consciousness but there is no doubt that memory is a fundamental component of mind. That’s the reason why I am also interested in the research of memory…
I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter. As the theory about consciousness proposed by Douglas Hofstadter was being discussed here in Conscious-Robots.com forums and elsewhere, I decided to challenge again my genuinely engineering and scientific intellect with another dangerous…
Sources of Consciousness (Green, Triffet, 1997) I haven’t read this book (yet), but I think it could be interesting to some extend as it tries to cover the biophysical and computational roots of consciousness. From a quick look at the…
The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines by Pentti O. Haikonen Principal Scientist, Cognitive Technology, Nokia Research Imprint Academics. March 2003, 300 pp., ISBN 0907845428. Review of the book ‘The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines’ by Pentti O. Haikonen, Principal Scientist,…
JCS covers the following topics: – How does the mind relate to the brain? – Can computers ever be conscious? – What do we mean by subjectivity and the self? These questions are being keenly debated in fields as diverse…
Ron Chrisley Reader in Philosophy. Director, Center for Research in Cognitive Science. University of Sussex. Ron research interests include mind, computation, art, meaning, neural networks, reference, cognition, quantum computation, infant development, representation, artificial intelligence, non-conceptual content, consciousness, epistemology, animal mentality, subjectivity, systematicity, implict learning, concepts, intentionality, robots, psychology, spirituality, cognitive maps, mirrors, metaphysics, objectivity … Ron Chrisley Homepage….
Antonio Chella RoboticsLab Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica (DINFO) Università di Palermo: Italy. Antonio is the head of RoboticsLab and his research interests include cognitive architectures for robotics and Machine Consciousness. Antonio Chella was born in Florence on March 4, 1961….
Hugo Gravato Marques. PhD Student. University of Essex. Hugo research interests include human-like mechanism and its replication into artificial robots. particularly interesting subtopics are: imagination, consciousness, cognition in general and action selection. also philosophy and history of art. Hugo Gravato Homepage…