What do robots dream of? This is the title of a perspective paper published this week in Science written by Christoph Adami. The author argues that robots that create and update internal models of their own structure may be able…
The University of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies (department of psychology) promote open, rigorous discussion of all phenomena related to consciousn experience. Visit the Center for Consciousness Studies website.
The Australian National University Centre for Consciousness was set up in August 2004 as part of David Chalmers’ ARC Federation Fellowship project. The project statement is as follows: This project aims to develop a research centre that will be a…
The CCRG’s research revolves around the design and implementation of cognitive, sometimes “conscious,” software agents, their computational applications, and their use in cognitive modeling. Visit the CCRG website.
The Mind Science Foundation is dedicated to solving one of the major questions of modern science – The puzzle of human consciousness – by funding leading-edge scientific research and education focused on the mind/brain. Visit the Mind Science Foundation website….
Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal provides a forum for a natural-science approach to the issues of consciousness, voluntary control, and self. The journal features empirical research (in the form of regular articles and short reports) and theoretical articles. Book…
ASSC promotes research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. Visit ASSC website.
Baars uses the theater metaphor in order to give an intuitive idea of his theory of consciousness known as Global Workspace Theory. Baars tell us about a “theater” in which the spotlight on the scene represents the focus of consciousness…
The most popular theory that tries to account for the extremely fast evolution of human brain is the “Machiavellian intelligence” hypothesis (also known as “social brain” hypothesis). Human brain has evolved much faster than other mammals. In only 25 million…
First of all, I would say that the concept of machine consciousness is not really new. What I think is new is the application of the latest scientific or philosophic models of consciousness in the Artificial Intelligence arena. Basically, machine…