Calculating God By Robert J. Sawyer Tor Science Fiction. 2001 English. 352 pages. ISBN: 0812580354 First of all, let me explain why I am posting a science fiction novel review to Conscious-Robots.com. For those of you who are familiar with…
Month: December 2008
BRAINMAKERS: How scientists are moving beyond computers to create a rival to the human brain. By David H. Freeman. Touchstone. 1995. 224 pages. English. ISBN: 067151055X This is a somewhat old book that I found some time ago in a…
In 30 years we will have an alternative to death: being a ghost in a machine. In a recent article by Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi [1], the authors argue that in 30 years we will be able to upload…
The Puzzle of the Brain: Conciousness This book is currently underway, but some chapters are already available online: SetShift. SetShift is a research group of the University of Granada, Spain. The book is written in Spanish and covers many aspects of…
AI Bots in Video Games and Virtual Worlds Usually when we talk about situated agents as the target of the research in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Consciousness, we think about physical agents, like typical autonomous robots. One of the reasons…
Artificial Consciousness ed. Antonio Chella & Riccardo Manzotti 280 pages January 2007 ISBN: 9781845400705 The book is interdisciplinary and focuses on the topic of artificial consciousness: from neuroscience to artificial intelligence, from bioengineering to robotics. It provides an overview on…