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…
Category: Machine Consciousness
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,…
The Development and Analysis of Conscious Machines “The Development and Analysis of Conscious Machines” is the title of the PhD thesis written and developed by David Gamez at the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems, University of Essex. This thesis…
ASSC XIII The thirteenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) will be held from 5 till 8 June 2009 at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and…
Axel Cleeremans Research Directors with the NFSR. Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. His research interests include Consciousness, Computational Models of Cognition, Implicit Learning, and Cognitive Science. Axel Cleeremans is research director, N.F.S.R. Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group (CO3)…
Raúl Arrabales Moreno, Machine Consciousness researcher at Carlos III University of Madrid “CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVES BESIDES GENETICS” By Ana María Jaramillo V. (Translation of interview published by Blog Sistemas Inteligentes) Inspired by the Strong Artificial Intelligence school, the same that captivated…
Review Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines By Pentty Haikonen Wiley. September 2007. ISBN: 978-0-470-06204-3 The first thing that I would like to say about this book is that this is one of the few cases in which…
(El alma está en el cerebro – Spanish Edition) Written by Eduardo Punset Spanish Publisher: Aguilar, 2006, Madrid. 344 pages. ISBN: 84-03-09737-9 Rather than a book on Consciousness, this is a popular science book about neuroscience. The phenomenon of consciousness…
Robot Consciousness Translation of “consciousness is not a property of matter; it is simply a process” by Raúl Arrabales published in Tercera Cultura December 2008. Translated by Zenit Translations.