13th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference and Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness STeP 2008 is the 13th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference and will be held in the Helsinki University of Technology and Nokia Research Center, Finland, on August 20-22. The first…
Interview with the Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman. Source: El Mundo Digital [1]. {mosimage} Gerald Edelman received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1972, when he was 43. He discovered the structure of antibodies, a crucial finding for the study of…
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…
Microsoft have recently launched the RoboChamps simulation robotics competition and portal. The Robochamps.com portal supports the league competitions with training, access to software, and community features. Robochamps is based on simulation, therefore you don’t need any real robotics hardware in…
Higher Order Theories of Consciousness take a common account for consciousness based on higher-order representations of conscious states. For the sake of clarity and as a preliminary explanation we could just say that Higher Order Theories (HOT) try to model consciousness as…
MindPapers – A Bibliography of the Philosophy of Mind and the Science of Consciousness MindPapers is a bibliography of work in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of cognitive science, and the science of consciousness. It consists of more than…
Dr. Pentti O A Haikonen Full Adjunct Professor University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza Philosophy Department, UHB 4026 Springfield, IL 62-703, USA Dr. Haikonen’s research focus is on Machine Cognition, Robot Brains, Machine Emotions, Conscious Machines, and Artificial…
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…
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008 April 8-12, 2008. Tucson ARIZONA Tucson Convention Center The eighth biennial Tucson conference continues an interdisciplinary tradition of intense, far-ranging and rigorous discussions on all approaches to the fundamental issue of how the brain…
The creators of Robosapien WowWee are preparing a new robot called Rovio that has been presented at CES 2008 and will be available this summer and it will cost around 200 Euro. Rovio is an omnidirectional wheeled robot equipped with…