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 programs and numerical representation of information. By developing higher-level cognitive functions through the power of artificial associative neuron architectures, the author approaches the issues of machine consciousness.

Robot Brains expertly outlines a complete system approach to cognitive machines, offering practical design guidelines for the creation of non-numeric autonomous creative machines. It details topics such as component parts and realization principles, so that different pieces may be implemented in hardware or software. Real-world examples for designers and researchers are provided, including circuit and systems examples that few books on this topic give.

In novel technical and practical detail, this book also considers:

• the limitations and remedies of traditional neural associators in creating true machine cognition;
  basic circuit assemblies cognitive neural architectures;
• how motors can be interfaced with the associative neural system in order for fluent motion to be achieved without numeric computations;
• memorization, imagination, planning and reasoning in the machine;
• the concept of machine emotions for motivation and value systems;
• an approach towards the use and understanding of natural language in robots.

The methods presented in this book have important implications for computer vision, signal processing, speech recognition and other information technology fields. Systematic and thoroughly logical, it will appeal to practising engineers involved in the development and design of robots and cognitive machines, also researchers in Artificial Intelligence. Postgraduate students in computational neuroscience and robotics, and neuromorphic engineers will find it an exciting source of information.

• See Chapter 1. Introduction. PDF.
• About Pentti O. Haikonen.
  

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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 its capabilities. The problems that confound the issues have been so clearly and precisely presented that even a beginner student will have no difficulty in getting at the meanings. For the undergraduates it will be a comprehensibly readable text."  Metapsychology

"Recommended for serious researchers in modelling consciousness."  Mitch Parsell, Psyche

"Well-written, approachable and relatively technical, laying down a comprehensive background before adding novel views on consciousness and the mind-body problem." Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology
 

ABSTRACT
Could a machine have an immaterial mind? The author argues that true conscious machines can be built, but rejects artificial intelligence and classical neural networks in favour of the emulation of the cognitive processes of the brain—the flow of inner speech, inner imagery and emotions. This results in a non-numeric meaning-processing machine with distributed information representation and system reactions. It is argued that this machine would be conscious; it would be aware of its own existence and its mental content and perceive this as immaterial.

Novel views on consciousness and the mind–body problem are presented. This book is a must for anyone interested in consciousness research and the latest ideas in the forthcoming technology of mind.

• Search inside the book at Amazon.com.
• Chapter 1. Introduction. PDF.
• About Pentti O Haikonen.

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Pentti O A Haikonen

Doctor of Technology

Principal Scientist, Cognitive Technology
Nokia Research Center, Helsinki

Dr. Haikonen is principal scientist at Nokia Research Center, his research focus is on Machine Cognition, Robot Brains, Machine Emotions, Conscious Machines, and Artificial Consciousness. He has written two books about machine consciousness:

• Robot Brains; circuits and systems for conscious machines. Wiley and Sons, UK 2007.
  From associative neurons and neuron groups to perception circuits, cognitive architectures, machine emotions, natural language in machines, machine consciousness Contains a little bit mathematics and circuit diagrams (Buy this book at Amazon).
• The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines. Imprint Academic, UK 2003
  His background philosophy towards the design of conscious machines – Easy reading, no mathematics here, lots of ideas (Buy this book at Amazon).
  
  

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DSS - Introducción a DSS (Decentralized Software Services)

Como ya se ha mencionado anteriormente, el DSS combina la arquitectura tradicional Web con partes de la arquitectura de Servicios de Web. La arquitectura resultante se basa en servicios para coordinar las aplicaciones distribuidas. A continuación se especifica qué es un servicio y cómo se usa.

Los servicios son los bloques básicos que se utilizan en MSRS para construir aplicaciones. Todos los servicios de MSRS están basados en el modelo de aplicación DSS. Una parte importante en el manejo de servicios son los nodos DSS. Un nodo DSS es un ambiente de ejecución que proporciona soporte a los servicios para ser creados y manejados hasta que se eliminan o el nodo DSS se para.

Modelo de Servicios DSS

El modelo de servicios DSS ha sido diseñado para facilitar el reutilización de los servicios, consiguiendo un manejo sencillo.  Los principales componentes de un servicio se describen a continuación:

• Service Identifier (Identificador de Servicio): Proporciona identidad al servicio, dando opción a que otros servicios se puedan comunicar con él o incluso permitir a un navegador Web acceder a él.
  
  
• Contract Identifier (Identificador de Contrato): Es una descripción (identificación única) de la funcionalidad que implementa el servicio, de modo que otros servicios puedan reutilizarlo.
  
  
• Service State (Estado del Servicio): Contiene el estado del servicio en cualquier momento de la ejecución. Cualquier información que deba ser recuperada, modificada o supervisada de un servicio del DSS se debe expresar como parte de su estado.
  
  
• Service Partners (Servicios Asociados): Son servicios especiales que interactúan con otros y que se encargan de que funcionen adecuadamente. Se declaran usando el atributo Partner.
  
  
• Main Port (Puerto Principal): Es un puerto CCR donde llegan mensajes de otros servicios. Este puerto es un miembro privado de la clase Service y se identifica con el atributo ServicePort.
  
  
• Service Handlers (Manejadores de Servicio): Registro de todas las operaciones DSS definidas sobre el puerto principal. Se definen utilizando el atributo ServiceHandlers.
  

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