Pentti Haikonen’s architecture for conscious machines By Trung Doan (doanviettrung a_t gmail dot com). Haikonen’s contribution to the machine-consciousness endeavor is an architecture based on cognitive principles. He also developed some electronic microchips as a first step to building a machine…
Category: Cognitive Science
Journal of Mind Theory Rigor in Cognitive Science The UPM Autonomous Systems Lab (AsLab) has recently launched a new journal in the field of congnitive science. The focus of the new Journal of Mind Theory (JMT) is on precise, succinct, non-interpretable…
Information Integration Theory of Consciousness According to this theory, consciousness corresponds to the capacity of a system to integrate information [1]. There are two main concepts which are central to this theory: differentiation and integration. Indeed, in this context consciousness…
TNGS – Theory of Neuronal Group Selection TNGS and the dynamic core hypothesis have been proposed by Gerald M. Edelman as an explanation for the neural correlates of consciousness. As its name indicates, the theory is based on the concept…
AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium Series Arlington, Virginia — November 5–7, 2009 The challenge of designing a human-level learner is central to creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind. It demands the level of robustness and flexibility of learning…
{mosimage} BICS 2010: Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Madrid, Spain, July 14-16, 2010 www.bicsconference.org Ricardo Sanz, General Chair Sponsored by ICSC [Due to several requests, the submission deadline for BICS 2010 has been extended to: January 18, 2010] BICS 2010 is a…
According to Damasio, a thing achieves self-awareness when its brain models its body, the outside world, and their interactions. At this point, the thing is self-aware, but only from moment to moment. It is not a very interesting creature. If…
Knowledge, Understanding and Consciousness 12 October 2009, St. Louis, MO, USA Workshop on Machine Consciousness within the KIMAS’09 Conference There is an increasing interest in investigating the possibility of equipping machines with consciousness mechanisms. The rationale behind it may be…
Mind that Abides. Panpsychism in the new millennium Edited by David Skrbina. University of Michigan at Dearborn Advances in Consciousness Research, 75 Benjamins Publishing Company. 2009. xiv, 401 pp. John. Panpsychism is the view that all things, living and nonliving,…
Anil K Seth Senior Lecturer, EPSRC Leadership Fellow Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK Seth is senior lecturer and EPSRC leadership fellow at the University of Sussex. He is interested the following research lines: Theoretical Neuroscience, Consciousness, Cognitive Science, Artificial Life,…