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…
Category: Books
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,…
The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines by Pentti O. Haikonen Principal Scientist, Cognitive Technology, Nokia Research Imprint Academics. March 2003, 300 pp., ISBN 0907845428. “A fascinating presentation of various issues relating to the emulation of consciousness by a machine and…
Searching for Spirit. Searching for Truth about Mind and Morality. Where IS your mind? Is your mind located somewhere in your brain? Does your brain create your mind? If the answer to these questions is yes, the belief held by…
Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines by Pentti O. Haikonen Wiley. September 2007. ISBN: 978-0-470-06204-3. Haikonen envisions autonomous robots that perceive and understand the world directly, acting in it in a natural human-like way without the need of…
By Bernard J. Baars Published 1988 Cambridge University Press Psychology 448 pages ISBN 0521427436 Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and thorny problems in psychological science. Its study has been neglected for many years, either because it was…