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Conscious Machines...
In this section we aim to review the existing architectures or artifacts that implement any kind of machine consciousness. We have also tried to provide an introduction to the field of Machine Consciousness.
As there are many different platforms where machine... |
Theories of Consciousness
In this category we aim to review the most salient theories and models of consciousness. ... |
 Haikonen's comment on article by Doan
Pentti Haikonen comments invited by Conscious-Robots.com editor on the recent article about Haikonen's Architecture for Conscious Machines written by Trung Doan.
I wish to thank Trung Doan for his analysis of my approach towards machine consciousness here... |
Pentti Haikonen's architecture for conscious machines
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... |
Information Integration Theory of Consciousness
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,... |
TNGS – Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
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 of selection. A huge... |
Global Workspace Theory (GWT)
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 directed by attention... |
Damasio Consciousness Model
Damasio Consciousness Model
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... |
Multiple Draft Model
The Multiple Draft Model (MDM) introduced by Dennett (1991), uses the editorial review metaphor to describe the cognitive processes of consciousness.
In this domain, coalitions of unconscious processors suffer a reiterative edition and review process (producing... |
Higher Order Theories of Consciousness
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... |
The Field of Machine Consciousness
In this category we describe and introduce the incipient field of Machine Consciousness. We have a special interest in strictly scientific approaches and practical applications. ... |
Intelligent Systems Weblog
Intelligent Systems Weblog
This blog run by José Carlos Cortizo is one of the most active and visited blogs from Madrimasd.org. It is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and covers a wide range of areas, from Machine Learning to Robotics. The "Sistemas Inteligentes"... |
The possibility of Creating Conscious Machines
In 30 years we will have an alternative to death: being a ghost in a machine.
In a recent article by Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi [1], the authors argue that in 30 years we will be able to upload our mind to a computer. Actually, we can start building our... |
Cognitive Robotics
In this article I aim to provide a comprehensive introduction to the field of cognitive robotics by providing you with some definitions, examples, links to information resources, courses, and research projects. Also, the research motivations of this field are... |
Robot Free Will
At any given time the mind has to take decisions and multiple unconscious actions are done. Our conscious mind continuously confabulates making up the illusion that it is in charge. But, who is actually in charge?
Can science tell us what is exactly the human... |
Machine Consciousness and Strong AI
Is machine consciousness a key aspect of strong artificial intelligence (strong AI)?
Can machine consciousness be applied as a pragmatic approach in weak AI?
Are machine consciousness and strong AI the same thing?
Machine consciousness is relatively... |
What is Machine Consciousness?
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 consciousness... |
Machine Consciousness Projects
Here you can find reviews about Robots and computer architectures implementing any kind of Machine Consciousness. ... |
The Awakening of Conscious Bots
The Awakening of Conscious Bots
Inside the Mind of the 2K BotPrize 2010 Winner
AIGameDev.com features an in-depth article about CC-Bot2, the winning entry (Conscious-Robots team) of this year's 2K BotPrize competition at CIG.
Related links:
The... |
ConsScale. A Scale for Measuring Machine Consciousness
A Scale for Measuring Machine Consciousness
ConsScale is a tool for assessing the functional level of consciousness of a creature. It has been specifically designed for the evaluation of Machine Consciousness implementations.
Now a ConsScale microsite is... |
The Development and Analysis of Conscious Machines
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... |
AI Bots in Video Games and Virtual Worlds
AI Bots in Video Games and Virtual Worlds
Usually when we talk about situated agents as the target of the research in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Consciousness, we think about physical agents, like typical autonomous robots. One of the reasons why we tend... |
Eternalizing Consciousness using an Artificial Intelligence Bot
Lifenaut Project. Eternalizing Consciousness using a virtual avatar
A talk with Nick Mayer, Manager of Cyberbiological Systems at Terasem Movement Foundation.
The goal of the Lifenaut Project is to create an automated, user-friendly, and web accessible system... |
Feelix Growing Project
Feelix Growing (FEEL, Interact, eXpress: a Global appRoach to develOpment With INterdisciplinary Grounding) is a project funded by the European Commission under contract FP6 IST-045169. It was launched in December 2006 and it is planned to end by May 2010... |
SOUL Project
The SOUL project, lead by Ricardo Sanz at the UPM Autonomous Systems Laboratory [1], tries to develop a cognitive architecture for complex cognitive control.
Control systems are software-intensive applications that are getting extremely complex not only... |
Sensopac Project
SENSOPAC is a European project supported within the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6). The SENSOPAC project will combine machine learning techniques and modelling of biological systems to develop a machine capable of abstracting... |
Lucy
Lucy the Robot
The aim of this research is to try and establish a single neural architecture that is capable of doing all the things the brain's cerebral cortex can do - hearing, seeing, thinking, feeling and moving. This ambitious project is currently... |
CyberChild
Rodney Cotterill's CyberChild
As far as I know there is no official website of this project. CyberChild project is based on a simulation of the brain and body of a very young infant. The main objective of the project is findind the neural correlated of consciousness... |
The Cognition and Affect Project
The Cognition and Affect Project
Exploring architectures for intelligent agents: (whether natural or artificial)
The CogAff project is a broad research effort on the principles for designing and explaining architectures for whole intelligent agents. This highly... |
CRONOS Project
The website of CRONOS PROJECT covers Owen Holland's and Tom Troscianko's EPSRC Adventure fund project to build a conscious robot (GR/S47946/01). This three year project is taking place at the University of Essex and the University of Bristol and will... |
IDA and LIDA
The following systems are based on Baars' GWT (Global Workspace Theory) and have been developed by University of Memphis Cognitive Computing Research Group:
IDA (Intelligent Distribution Agent) addresses the Navy's problem of job distribution using the Conscious... |
CERA
CERA (Conscious and Emotional Reasoning Architecture) is a software architecture that allows the integration of different cognitive components into a single autonomous system. It is designed to be a flexible research framework in which different consciousness... |
CCC
Here you will find articles regarding the Computational Correlates of Consciousness (CCC). ... |
Conscious Robots
Here you will find reviews of existing implementations of robots or robotics plaforms implementing any kind of Machine Consciousness Architecture. ... |
XCR-1 Robot. Sound direction detection demo
Sound direction detection demo using the Haikonen Architecture in the XCR-1 Robot
In this experiment, Haikonen’s XCR-1 robot detects the sound direction information and integrates it with the wheel drive so that the robot is able to home in on the sound source... |
Season's Greetings 2011
Season's Greetings from XCR-1 robot
The XCR-1 Robot by Pentti Haikonen performs a "Christmas Present Task" to wish you a happy Xmas!
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Season's Greetings
Season's Greetings from XCR-1 robot
The XCR-1 Robot by Pentti Haikonen performs a candle search task to wish you a happy Xmas!
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Review of 10 conscious robots
A review of ten conscious robots? Is this correct? Yes, but we are talking about classic TV robots, of course...
A review of most popular commercial conscious robots would be a nice post for this website, but I am afraid this is about science-fiction robots.... |
Conscious-Robots team wins the 2K BotPrize 2010 competition!!!
Conscious-Robots team is the 2K BotPrize 2010 Competition Winner!!!
The third edition of the 2K BotPrize Competition was decided recently in Copenhagen, at the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games. We are happy to announce that the... |
How to Make a Robot that Feels
How to Make a Robot that Feels
This article is divided in two parts:
- A summary of Kevin O’Regan keynote talk at CogSys 2010 by Raúl Arrabales. - An invited extended discussion about the self and the role of action in sensation by Kevin O’Regan.
How to... |
Can a robot pass the mirror test?
First of all, the mirror test is not exactly intended as a general test for consciousness, but a specific test for self-consciousness, and more exactly self-recognition. It is generally applied to some higher mammals and infants. The test consists on determining... |
Robots and Theology
Do robots dream of God? This is a controversial question raised many times in Hollywood movies. However, in recent years scientists and theologians are looking at the possible implications of Strong Artificial Intelligence.
The possibility of a future in which... |
The Safe Performance of Robots: A Matter of Law
It seems that some governments are taking very seriously the possibility of the everyday use of robots in society. Japan and South Korea are worried about human safety in a world where many critical tasks can be performed by machines. They share the Issac... |
Self-Awareness in Robots
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 to better adapt to the world... |
AI Techniques...
This section aims to cover the main Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques that can be potentially used for Machine Consciousness.
Machine consciousness models are based on psychological or philosophical models. For the actual implementation of such systems... |
Artificial General Intelligence
As opposed to classical AI approaches where the whole research area is fragmented in narrow intelligent systems, the Artificial General Intelligence discipline aims to build an integrative alternative considering whole artificial systems that could develop intelligence... |
Building human-like machines
Building human-like machines
(At least in virtual environments)
The second edition of the BotPrize contest [1], which aims at producing an artificial intelligence (AI) that cannot be distinguished from a live person in a virtual... |
AGI: Now is the Time
Artificial General Intelligence: Now is the Time
Google Tech Talks. May 30, 2007. Dr. Ben Goertzel.The following video is a talk from Dr. Ben Goertzel (CEO of Novamente) about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). In the talk the discipline of AGI is introduced, its... |
Biologicaly Inspired AI
This category covers all AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques inspired in processes observed in biological organisms. Bio-inspired models are the foundation of many AI techniques like Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Artificial Life (AL), Evolutionary Computing... |
1st International Seminar on New Issues of AI
1st International Seminar on New Issues of Artificial Intelligence
Departamento de Informática - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
More Information: http://scalab.uc3m.es/~seminarios/
About the seminars:
Kalyanmoy Deb Indian Institute... |
Artificial Life
Here you will find articles related to the use of Artificial Life (AL) in Machine Consciousness implementations. ... |
Evolutionary Computing
Evolutionary computing is one of the popular domains in the context of Artificial Intelligence tecniques. Here you will find articles related to the use of Genetic Programming (GP) and Genetic Algorithms in Machine Consciousness implementations. ... |
Understanding Genetics - Daniel Dennett Interview
These are some excerpts from an enterview with Daniel Dennett. The series are titled Understanding Genetics. Points of View. Source: www.thetech.org/genetics. Questions are very much related with the content of two of the Books written by Dennett: 'Darwin's Dangerous... |
Upcoming Call for Papers
This is a link to an online application where you can add, view and manage the call for papers from the conferences of your interest.
Call for Papers Application.
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
In the context of evolutionary computing it is very interesting to know that from October 2006 the Universoty of Cambridge offers the complete work of Charles Darwin online at darwin-online.org.uk.
The site contains more than 50,000 searchable... |
ANN
Here you will find articles related to the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) in Machine Consciousness Implementations. ... |
Multi-Agent Systems
Here you will find articles related to the use of Multi-Agent Systems in Machine Consciousness implementations. ... |
Neuroscience...
In this section you can find neuroscience related news. We try to focus on consciousness related issues and research results applicable to machine consciousness. Both human and other mammals related studies are included.
Undoubtly, the study of human brain and... |
Conferences
Here you can find a list of Neuroscience conferences. ... |
NCC
Here you will find articles related to the Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC). ... |
Experiments in Consciousness
Experiments in Consciousness
This is a UCTV (University of California Television) video where the Nobel Laureate Francis Crick explains his and Kristof Koch ideas about the Neural Correlates of Consciousness and related experiments.
The video belongs... |
Consciousness and the Biology of the Brain
This video from the series Conversations with History entitled Consciousness and the Biology of the Brain is an enterview with Christof Koch presented by The Instite of International Studies of the University of California at Berkeley.
Host Harry Kreisler... |
Human Brain
Under this category you can find Human Brain related topics. Latest advances in neuroscience are closely followed and research results can be used as feedback for our machine consciousness models. ... |
New anesthesia derived from chillis block pain without impairing movement
Scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital have combined a normally inactive lidocaine derivative with capsaicin, the ‘heat’-generating ingredient in chili peppers, to produce pain-specific local anesthesia. When injected into rats, this combination completely... |
Emotion, moral judgement, and Reason
Although classical AI approaches have usually neglected the emotional dimension, it is becoming a key part of many of the current artificial cognitive architectures. The neurobiological study of emotions during the last decades has offered new insight. The analysis... |
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
This is a filmed lecture of Christof Koch, neuroscientist famous for his contributions to the quest for understanding the underlying mechanisms of consciousness. He has been working jointly with Francis Crick researching on the visual perception and specifcally... |
Online Neuroanatomy Course
This is a link to an online course on neuroanatomy (written in Spanish) by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Anatomy Department - Medicine School.
These pages are property of the Anatomy Department of the Medicine School of Catholic University... |
The Brain's Dark Energy
Human brain weight is about 2% of body weight. However, its energy consumption is 20%. Thanks to brain imaging techniques (like fMRI and PET) scientists can see the changing metabolism and brain blood streams, which mean energy consumption as explained by Marcus E... |
Ramón y Cajal Nobel Prize Centenary
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 1, 1852 - Octiber 17, 1934) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 (jointly with Camillo Golgi). This Spanish scientist is considered one of the founders of neuroscience. Ramón y Cajal was very prolific in histologic studies... |
Phantom limbs and virtual reality
Scientists from Manchester University (Murray and his team [1][2]) have proven that patients suffering pain in their inexsistent phanton limbs can relieve pain by using visualisation. Using different techniques, from a simple mirror to advanced virtual reality... |
Emotions and the perception of pain
As published in the last issue of JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) by Irene Tracey (Oxford University) emotions and motivations play an important role in the mechanisms of the perception of pain in the human brain. Using brain imaging techniques... |
The "Machiavellian intelligence" hypothesis
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... |
We know the brain as much as Galileo knew the universe
The knowledge we currently have about the human brain is comparable to the knowledge about the Universe we had in Galileo’s time, said the Novel Prize Torsten Wiesel during a meeting in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Mr. Wiesel argues that plasticity is a... |
Pinky and the Brain
Pinky and the Brain. The Brainstem.
Here we have a scientific description of the main parts of human brain by Pinky. The funniest way to learn about human brain. Enjoy it!
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Consciousness in Vegetative State?
As reported last week in Science, a team of researchers in Cambridge have demonstrated that a patient in vegetative state preserved conscious awareness. Using a fMRI scanner the patient showed same activation patterns as healthy volunteers when she was asked to... |
Mammals Brain
In this category you can find information related to other higher mammals brains. Consciousness seems not to be exclusively produced in humans, therefore there is a lot of things we can learn from our closer evolutionary relatives. ... |
Making plans
Traditionally, human are the only animals considered able to plan ahead. However, recent research works demonstrate that other higher mammals (like bonobos) are able to save tools for future use. As published in Nature by Nicholas J. Mulcahy and Josep Call from... |
Elephants recognize themselves in the mirror
We already knew that humans, great apes, and dolphins are able to recognize themselves in the mirror. Usually, the rest of higher mammals or other animals think the image in the glass belongs to another individual (if they understand the concept of individual at all)... |
Researchers...
In this section we try to list the most salient researchers and research centers in the field of machine consciousness.
We have deliberately excluded from this section those researchers or research centers that are not mostly focused on machine... |
Jobs
Postgraduate jobs, Postdoctoral fellowships (Post-Doc) opportunities, and PhD positions related with Cognitive Systems, Computational Neuroscience, Machine Consciousness, Cognitive Robotics and the like. ... |
Post-doctoral scholarships in cognitive robotics – University of Aveiro
===========================================================POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS Transverse Activity on Intelligent RoboticsUniversity of Aveiro, Portugal===========================================================Apply by 2013/02/25 Through previous... |
Three Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Intelligent Mobile Robotics
We are looking for up to three Postdoctoral Research Fellows to work on a new FP7-funded project STRANDS "Spatio-Temporal Representations and Activities for Cognitive Control in Long-Term Scenarios". STRANDS will develop new technologies to allow mobile robots... |
PhD Position in artificial intelligence and robotics
====================================================================== ***** One PhD Position on Planning Human-Aware Robot Behavior ***** Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) ... |
Two Fully-Funded PhD Positions in Intelligent Mobile Robotics
We are looking for two PhD students to work on topics connected with the new FP7-funded project STRANDS ”Spatio-Temporal Representations and Activities for Cognitive Control in Long-Term Scenarios”. STRANDS will develop new technologies to allow mobile robots to... |
PhD position in visual object categorization
PhD position in visual object categorization The Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for one PhD research position on computer vision and machine learning applied to robotics. The PhD will focus on how to provide robots with categorisation... |
Cognition Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology
Cognition Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology
Plymouth University - Faculty of Science and Technology, School of Psychology
Ref A2568
Salary £31020 to £35938 pa - Grade 7
The School of Psychology at Plymouth University is seeking to appoint... |
PhD Studentships on Emotion in Embodied Cognition and Action in Autonomous Robots
PhD Studentships on Emotion in Embodied Cognition and Action in Autonomous Robots
Science and Technology Research Institute University of Hertfordshire
Applications are invited from candidates with good first or Master degrees in cognitive science, computer science,... |
PhD position in the area of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Tübingen
PhD position in the area of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Tübingen
The Department of Computer Science, research group Media Informatics/ Human-Computer Interaction offers a position as
Doctoral Researcher (full time, salary level E13 TV-L)
for... |
Marie Curie Funded PhD in Cognitive Robotics or Computational Neuroscience
Marie Curie Funded PhD in Cognitive Robotics or Computational Neuroscience
Curie Initial Training Network - ‘NETT - Neural Engineering Transformative Technologies’:
based on the School of Sciences/Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal
Marie... |
Post-doctoral Research Fellows (BABEL Project) - 3 Posts
Post-doctoral Research Fellows (BABEL Project) - 3 Posts
Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, Plymouth University UK
The Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University (UK) is seeking three post-doctoral research fellows for a period... |
PhD Fellowship - Autonomy and Levels of Organization
Call for a 4 year FPI (PhD) fellowship associated with the research project "Autonomy and Levels of Organization" (FFI2011-25665) in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Deadline: 23th of February... |
Graduate Fellowships - CI & Games at UNR
UNR offers two PhD fellowships up for grabs starting next year, open for all research areas, though we would certainly like to see applications from the ci-games community. Our faculty in that area are:
Kostas Bekris - motion planning, simulated robotics... |
Birmingham Fellows in Robotics and Cognitive Systems
University of Birmingham is currently performing a search to find 50 world-class postdoctoral fellows in a variety of areas *including robotics and cognitive systems*. The post provides a 5-year research-only position followed by a permanent university position... |
Postdoctoral positions in Bioinspired Social Learning Mechanisms for Human Robot Interaction
Postdoctoral positions at Imperial College London in Bioinspired Social Learning Mechanisms for Human Robot Interaction
Two postdoctoral positions are immediately available at Imperial's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, to work on bionspired... |
4 posts Computational Neuroscience, University of Birmingham, UK
University of Birmingham UK, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics
A new Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics (CN-CR, www.psychology.bham.ac.uk/cncr) has been launched, with a multimillion pound investment. The Centre... |
BitBrain Technologies: 5 R&D engineering posts
BitBrain Technologies is seeking 5 engineers for the Research and Development Department
BitBrain Technologies is a spinoff company from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, dedicated to the development and commercialization of brain-computer interface technology... |
PhD studentship in Social and Affective Neuroscience
3 year PhD Project: The Neurobiology of the Social Modulation of Pain and Sadness
Departments of Psychology and Neuroimaging, Institute of Psyquiatry, King's College London.
Start: 01/01/2011 Ends: 20/12/13 1st Supervisor: Dr. A. Fotopoulo, 2nd Supervisor: pending... |
Fellowships in Sensory Computation in Neural Systems
7 Fellowships of the Research Training Group “Sensory Computation in Neural Systems”
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Berlin and the TU Berlin invite applications for *7 Fellowships* of the Research Training Group “Sensory Computation... |
Faculty positions in Cognitive Robotics at ENSTA ParisTech
Faculty positions in Cognitive Robotics at ENSTA ParisTech
The Laboratory of Electronics and Computer Science at ENSTA ParisTech is opening permanent faculty positions in the field of cognitive robotics. ENSTA ParisTech is one of the most renowned French institutes... |
Three open positions for computer scientists - biologists
2 PhD + 1 postdoc position, KULeuven, "Bio-inspired distributed computing"
KULeuven, Belgium Dept. Computer Science / Dept. Biology / Dept. Mechanics Three open positions for computer scientists / biologists
Two PhD researchers One postdoctoral researcher
In... |
EPSRC studentship in Human and Machine Colour Vision
Illuminating Colour Constancy: from Physics to Photography
EPSRC project studentship in Vision Science Newcastle University, UK Supervisor: Professor Anya Hurlbert
What is it? a 3.5-year PhD studentship in Vision Science, at the interface between human... |
Open PhD position in Computational Neuroscience of Sensorimotor learning
A PhD position is available in the research group of Aldo Faisal at Imperial College.
Group page: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.faisal
Dr Faisal is a Lecturer in Neurotechnology jointly at the Dept. of Bioengineering and the Dept. of Computing at Imperial... |
Postdoctoral opening in computational neuroscience - mathematical biology
Postdoctoral opening in computational neuroscience/mathematical biology
The Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Mathematical Biosciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) invite applications for a postdoctoral... |
PhD Scholarship in Cognitive Science (Spain)
PhD Scholarship in Cognitive Science (Spain)
Announcement is only available in Spanish:
ANÁLISIS CORPOREIZADO DE LAS NOCIONES DE COMPUTACIÓN, ALGORITMO E IMPLEMENTACIÓN Y DE LA INDUCCIÓN DE ESTRUCTURAS GRAMATICALES.
OFERTA DE BECA FPI Se oferta una Beca... |
Postdoc position in San Diego
Postdoc position in San Diego
Positions are currently open for Postdoctoral Fellows in computational neuroscience to join a team of researchers in creating large-scale, spiking network models of sensorimotor control in the mammalian central nervous system... |
Phd studentship available in computational neuroscience and consciousness
Phd studentship available in computational neuroscience and consciousness
Large-Scale Computational Models of Thalamocortical Systems Underlying Consciousness.
Funding is available (for UK/EU applicants) for a three-year full-time D.Phil. (Ph.D) in the area of... |
Jobs: Two Chair positions for new Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics
Two Chairs wanted for new Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics: Birmingham UK
University of Birmingham College of Life and Environmental Sciences College of Engineering and Physical Sciences School of Psychology School of Computer Science... |
Postdoctoral Fellowship in neural engineering (Brain-Computer Interface) at CEA Grenoble, France
Applicants are invited for a postdoctoral position in the field of neural engineering with the focus on Brain Computer Interface (BCI).
The successful applicant will perform research in the fields of signal processing, adaptive modeling, machine learning and... |
Researchers
People researching specifically on Machine Consciousness (We don't include in this section consciousness researchers, but only people working specifically on machine consciousness models and devices). ... |
Axel Cleeremans
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... |
Anil K Seth
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... |
Will Browne
Will Browne
Lecturer in Cybernetics.
Cybernetics. School of Systems Engineering University of Reading Whiteknights Reading, UK. Browne's research interests are Learning Classifier Systems, Cognitive Systems, Robotics, and Control. He is also doing specific... |
Stan Franklin
Stan Franklin
W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor Cognitive Computing Research Group Department of Computer Science Institute for Intelligent Systems The University of Memphis Memphis, TN
Leading and managing the IDA project from its... |
Uma Ramamurthy
Uma Ramamurthy
Director of Computing, Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Uma is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Intelligent Systems. Her research interests include modeling perception, conceptual... |
Murray Shanahan
Murray Shanahan
Professor of Cognitive Robotics. Department of Computing. Imperial College London.
Murray research interests are focused in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. He also has a strong interest in philosophy of mind,... |
Ben Goertzel
Ben Goertzel
Founder, CEO and Chief Scientist Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC.
Ben research interests include amongst others artificial general intelligence architectures and cognitive science.
About Novamente
Founded in 2001, Novamente LLC is a 20+... |
Hugo Gravato Marques
Hugo Gravato Marques.
PhD Student. University of Essex.
Hugo research interests include human-like mechanism and its replication into artificial robots. particularly interesting subtopics are: imagination, consciousness, cognition in general and action selection... |
Antonio Chella
Antonio Chella
RoboticsLab Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica (DINFO) Università di Palermo: Italy.
Antonio is the head of RoboticsLab and his research interests include cognitive architectures for robotics and Machine Consciousness.
Antonio Chella was... |
Ron Chrisley
Ron Chrisley
Reader in Philosophy. Director, Center for Research in Cognitive Science. University of Sussex.
Ron research interests include mind, computation, art, meaning, neural networks, reference, cognition, quantum computation, infant dev... |
Pentti O A Haikonen
Dr. Pentti O A HaikonenFull 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... |
Steve Grand
Steve Grand is the founder of Cyberlife Research Limited and the creator of Lucy the robot.
Steve Grand Homepage
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David Gamez
David Gamez is a researcher on Machine Consciousness at the University of Essex, UK. He is working with Prof. Owen Holland and participating in CRONOS Project.
David Gamez Homepage
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Rodney M J Cotterill
Rodney M J Cotterill
Emeritus Professor
Technical University of Denmark
Department of Physics
Denmark
Coterill developed CyberChild - A simulation test-bed for consciousness studies.
Rodney M J Cotterill Homepage. ... |
Riccardo Manzotti
Riccardo Manzotti
He is assistant professor of psychology at the IULM University (Milan), Institute of Human, Languange and Environmental Sciences. His main interest is understanding the nature of consciousness, and his research work include artificial consciousness... |
Aaron Sloman
Aaron Sloman School of Computer Science The University of Birmingham Birmingham, B15 2TT England, UK
1991-2005: Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Since 2005: Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. ... |
Ricardo Sanz
Ricardo Sanz is professor in systems engineering and automatic control and researcher in the field of autonomous systems. Some interesting research works on Artificial Intelligence and the relation between control and consciousness can be found in his website:... |
Owen Holland
Owen Holland University of Essex
He is PI of the EPSRC Adventure Fund project 'Machine consciousness through internal modelling', sometimes known as 'the CRONOS project'.
Homepage: Owen Holland... |
Igor Aleksander
Emeritus Professor Aleksander Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Head of Intelligent and Interactive Systems Imperial College London
Homepage: Igor Aleksander... |
Raúl Arrabales Moreno
Raúl Arrabales Moreno University Carlos III of Madrid Departamento de Informática
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Links
Raúl Arrabales is currently researching on machine consciousness as... |
Research Centers
This category aims to list the most salient research centers around the world dedicated to consciousness and/or machine consciousness. ... |
Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science
The Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science (SCCS) at the University of Sussex has been recently founded
SCCS web site: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sackler/index
Founded in 2010 with a generous donation from the Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation,... |
AND Corporation
AND Corporation has developed and commercialized a process known as Holographic Neural Technology.
AND Corporation has developed a rather complete neuro-morphic model of the brain, based upon Holographic/Quantum neural technology ("H.Ne.T."). They have... |
Cognitive Computing Research Group
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.
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Centre for Consciousness
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 world leader... |
Center for Consciousness Studies
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.
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Discussion Forums
This category lists some discussion groups or discussion forums on the matter of scientific study of consciousness and/or machine consciousness. ... |
Language Mind and Consciousness
AI Forums: Language Mind and Consciousness. This AI Forum is dedicated to the problem of language, mind, and consciousness.
Background
The manipulation of natural human language by a computer, a major research track inside artificial intelligence, at first... |
www.Conscious-Robots.com Forums
Conscious-Robots.com Forums welcome discussion about the following topics:
Machine Consciousness
Scientific Study of Consciousness
Cognitive Robotics
Microsoft Robotics Studio
Anything related to AI and Consciousness
LINK: http://www... |
PSYCHE-D Discussion Forum (Theoretical emphasis)
PSYCHE-D: Areas of discussion appropriate for Psyche-D, where the focus is on theory related issues, include the following: A) How do we define consciousness? In the broader sense, what natural phenomena are we trying to understand? What needs to be explained,... |
PSYCHE-B Discussion Forum
PSYCHE-B: Areas of discussion appropriate for Psyche-B, where the focus is on research issues from an empirical point-of-view, include the following: A) What directions in research are suggested by theory? What questions are ripe for research? B) What can we... |
Interviews and Lectures
Here we have collected interviews and lectures from world-class researchers on consciousness and machine consciousness. ... |
Searle on the Mind-Body Problem
Searle on the Mind-Body Problem
The following video is a short excerpt from an interview to John Searle about his book Intentionality and Minds, Brains and Science.
Will computers ever achieve consciousness? John Searle, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy and... |
Lectures on Machine Consciousness - Madrid 2011
Lectures on Machine Consciousness - Madrid - February 2011
From January 31st to February 4th, 2011, the Scalab research group from the Carlos III University of Madrid will hold the 4th International Seminar on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence. This... |
AAAI Tutorial on Machine Consciousness
Tutorial on AI and Machine Consciousness at AAAI Conference by Antonio Chella.
July 11 2010. Atlanta. Twenty-Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10).
Tutorial SA-1. AI and Machine Consciousness
By Antonio Chella.
Machine consciousness is an... |
Consciousness: The Webcourse
Fall 2009 Consciousness: The Web Course, and Advanced Seminar: An Introduction to Mind and BrainBoth taught by Dr. Bernard J. Baars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Baars
Both courses will run November 14, 2009 – FEBRUARY 7, 2010 With a... |
Pentti Haikonen talks about Cyborgs
Pentti Haikonen talks about Cyborgs
In this video interview Pentti Haikonen share his thoughts about cyborgs. ... |
Consciousness Evolves Besides Genetics
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... |
Robotic 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.
Raúl Arrabales is assistant lecturer in the computing department... |
We will create conscious machines in the future
We will create conscious machines in the future.
Interview with the Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman.
Source: El Mundo Digital [1].
Gerald Edelman received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1972, when he was 43. He discovered the structure of antibodies, a crucial... |
Consciousness and the Biology of the Brain
This video from the series Conversations with History entitled Consciousness and the Biology of the Brain is an enterview with Christof Koch presented by The Instite of International Studies of the University of California at Berkeley.
Host Harry Kreisler... |
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
This is a filmed lecture of Christof Koch, neuroscientist famous for his contributions to the quest for understanding the underlying mechanisms of consciousness. He has been working jointly with Francis Crick researching on the visual perception and specifcally... |
Deus ex Machina. Interview with Anne Foerst
This is a transcript of a Berkeley Groks interview with Anne Foerst entitled Deus ex Machina. December 22, 2004.
Listen to the Interview (mp3)
Prof. Anne Foerst Visiting Professor of Theology and Computer Science, St. Bonaventure University... |
Douglas R. Hofstadter at Stanford
Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Trying to Muse Rationally about the Singularity Scenario.
The Singularity Summit at Stanford.
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Interview with Francis Crick - UCSD Guestbook
This is an enterview with Francis Crick (the Nobel Laureate co-discoverer of the DNA) conducted by the neuroscientist Nick Spitzer at University of California - San Diego.
The discussion is centered about Dr. Crick's research on human consciousness.
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Interview with Daniel Dennett by Robert Wright
This is a one hour interview with Daniel Dannett conducted by Robert Wright at Dennett's home in Massachusetts. Main topics of the enterview are consciousness, evolution and free will.
The interview's video is dated September 2004.
More information... |
Interview with Rodolfo Llinás
This is a link to an interview with Rodolfo Llinás conducted by Sérgio Strejilevich in Brain & Mind electronic magazine on Neuroscience:
Interview with Rodolfo Llinás.
The body of the interview (excerpt from Brain & Mind electronic magazine number 6... |
Associations and Foundations
In this category we list and include links to the most important associations in the scientific study of consciousness and machine consciousness. ... |
Cognitive Science Society
The Cognitive Science Society is a cross-disciplinar association of researchers with a common goal: understanding human mind. Typical disciplines include Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, and Philosophy.
More information at: http://cognitivesciencesociety... |
The Swartz Foundation
The mission of the Swartz Foundation is to explore the application of physics, mathematics and computer engineering principles to neuroscience, as a path to better understanding the brain/mind relationship.
Visit the Swartz Foundation webpage.
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Mind Science Foundation
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... |
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
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.
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Reviews...
Here you will find reviews about books, courses and robots related to the field of Machine Consciousness.
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Consciousness Books Reviews
Books on Machine Consciousness and Scientific Study of Consciousness reviews. ... |
Coyote. A Tale of Unexpected Consequences
Coyote. A Tale of Unexpected Consequences. An intelligent robot coyote longs to be free… Elisabeth Rhett WoodsEkstasis Editions, Sep. 2011. This book at Amazon . This science fiction novel is not about consciousness, but one of the... |
Book Review: Robot Brains
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 the exiting title... |
Book Review: Calculating God
Calculating God
By Robert J. Sawyer Tor Science Fiction. 2001 English. 352 pages. ISBN: 0812580354 First of all, let me explain why I am posting a science fiction novel review to Conscious-Robots.com. For those of you who are familiar with this website, you... |
The soul is in the brain
The soul is in the brain
(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... |
Book Review: Brainmakers
BRAINMAKERS: How scientists are moving beyond computers to create a rival to the human brain.
By David H. Freeman. Touchstone. 1995. 224 pages. English. ISBN: 067151055X This is a somewhat old book that I found some time ago in a small book store (in fact,... |
The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines
The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines by Pentti O. Haikonen
Principal Scientist, Cognitive Technology, Nokia Research Imprint Academics. March 2003, 300 pp., ISBN 0907845428.
Review of the book ‘The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines’ by Pentti O... |
Sources of Consciousness
Sources of Consciousness (Green, Triffet, 1997)
I haven’t read this book (yet), but I think it could be interesting to some extend as it tries to cover the biophysical and computational roots of consciousness. From a quick look at the index and some leaf through... |
I Am a Strange Loop
I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter.
As the theory about consciousness proposed by Douglas Hofstadter was being discussed here in Conscious-Robots.com forums and elsewhere, I decided to challenge again my genuinely engineering and scientific intellect with... |
The Making of the Memory
The Making of Memory by Steven Rose
This is not a book on consciousness but there is no doubt that memory is a fundamental component of mind. That’s the reason why I am also interested in the research of memory in mammals and that’s why I read this book by Steven... |
Theatre of the Mind
Theatre of the Mind. Raising the curtain on consciousness. Jay Ingram (2005).
Reviewed: 2007/09/18 13:13. This book by Jay Ingram is published by Harper Collins Canada (2005). This is the last book I’ve read about consciousness, and I can recommend it to anyone... |
Consciousness Explained
Post edited by: Raúl, at: 2006/11/13 13:13
I’m about to finish reading the book Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett (1991). Although I have seen some critics against Dennett’s approach I think this book is a really valuable resource for those who... |
Theories and Models of Consciousness
In this category we aim to review the most salient theories and models of consciousness. ... |
Robotics Tools
Here you can find news and reviews about the resources and tools used to build and develop robotic applications. We have tried to focus on those platforms applicated to machine consciousness. ... |
Robots
Here you will find reviews about Robots that can be potentially used for research on Machine Consciousness. ... |
The Tower of Hanoi for Robotics
The Tower of Hanoi for Robotics
A contest in mobile manipulation for undergraduate and graduate robotics students
London Science Museum, London, UK. Dec. 2, 2011.
In association with the 1st European Robotics Week and the EU Robots Festival
www.... |
Urbi goes Open Source
Gostai releases an Open Source Edition of Urbi (Urbi 2.1 - Open Source AGPL v3)
URBI is a software development platform for robotics that supports asynchronous event management and orchestration. URBI also provides software components and interfaces to... |
Wakamaru
Wakamaru, the communication robot by Mitshubishi.
Wakamaru is a robot designed for human communication and interaction and its own "personality". This robot has been designed by Toshiyuki Kita to live with humans. Its robotic body features original eyes, mouth... |
Aldebaran NAO
The following is a video of an Aldebaran Nao prototype robot at WAF 2008 (Workshop de Agentes Físicos, 2008. Vigo. Spain). This one is used by University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid to participate in the Robocup competition. After Sony decided to quit the manufacturing... |
WowWee Rovio
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 an onboard webcam... |
WowWee Robopanda
One of the latest robotic toys from WowWee Robotics is the Robopanda. Unlike former WowWee robots like Robosapien, this robot doesn’t work with a remote control, but directly by touch and sound. It is designed to play games, sing songs, and talk with children... |
AMOUSE The Robotic Mouse
The AMOUSE (The Artificial Mouse Project) is a robot mouse designed to study the mouse behavior and the integration of somatosensory (whiskers) and visual sensory modalities.
This robotic mouse is built on top of a Khepera robot base (C) and includes an... |
The Huggable Robot
The Huggable project started in the MIT Media Lab (The Robotic Life Group) in 2005. The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for healthcare, education, and social communication. It is inspired in traditional companion animal therapy.
The Huggable is... |
Robotic Carp
The robotic carp developed by Ryomei Engineering (a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) is a curious example of a fish robot. This remote-controlled metal fish resembles to a koi carp, and it's actually a great catch: 80 cm... |
CB2 The baby robot
CB2 (Child-robot with Biomimetic Body) is a young android created by Japanese researchers Minoru Asada and Hiroshi Ishiguro (who famously created an android twin of himself). The following video shows this silicone skin baby bot rolling around and trying... |
New version of Asimo in Barcelona
A new version of the famous Asimo robot was presented last month in Barcelona, Spain. In addition to the former features of this humanoid model, the new version of Asimo features a streamlined design and is able to perform receptionist tasks, carrying objects,... |
Plen the Skating Robot
Plen is a robot designed to skate around on your desktop. It can be controlled via Bluettoth. It was launched commercially last summer in Japan [1] for around $2000.
Plen is able to keep balance when skateboarding or even skating on one leg. The following... |
BEAR (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot)
BEAR (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot) is a prototype from Vecna Robotics [1] designed to find, pick up and rescue people in harm's way. The BEAR can lift heavy loads (up to 135 Kg) and carry them long distance. It is intended to carry out rescue tasks... |
Lucy the Robot
Robot Lucy is a research project developed by Steve Grand as a platform to develop novel theories about how the human brain works. Lucy is an "orangutan" not programmed to do anything, but intended to develop her synthetic nervous system and learn as she grows up... |
URBI. Universal Real-time Behavior Interface
It was a matter of time that Microsoft Robotics Studio had a competitor. Last month Gostai released URBI 1.0 RC2. Release candidate 1 was out just the same month (December 2006) Microsoft released their version 1.0 of MSRS. URBI is available under GPL license... |
MobileRobots Pioneer 3 (P3 DX)
The Pioneer 3 DX is a robot base platform by MobileRobots Inc. (ActivMedia Robotics). This wheeled robot has been updated in its P3-DX8 version to carry loads more robustly and improve autonomy.
Although the P3-DX offers an embedded computer option it can be... |
I-Cybie Review
I-Cybie Review: I-Cybie robotic pet is manufactured by Silverlit Electronics and commercialized worldwide by several toy vendors. It comes in three colors: blue, gold and transparent cover. This pet robot is quite close to a Sony Aibo in terms of... |
Robotic Bugs
Given that we are not able to reproduce in a robot the complexity and versatility of a human nervous system, we can try with much more simple biological intelligence examples: bugs. Actually, roboticists are struggling to design robots as intelligent and agile as bugs... |
A Robot in Every Home
Scientific American January 2007 issue features an article by Bill Gates titled A Robot in Every Home [1]. Is domestic robotics industry going to reach critical mass in the short term? Robotics applications in manufacturing are a reality. However, practical... |
Polymorphic Robotics
Polymorphic Robotics, self-adaptive, self-organizing, and generally self-* properties of robotics are usually related to the field of machine consciousness. Basically, some degree of self-consciousness is required to self-repair or self-heal a robot. The SASO 2007... |
Self-Replicating Robots
Researchers from Cornell University (Hod Lipson and colleagues) built a robot than can reproduce. Self-replication and self-reparation are desirable properties of robots for some environments. The following video shows the proof of concept robot (2005) made up... |
Sony QRIO dancing
It's a shame that Sony decided to discontinue their robotics projects. The Sony QRIO humanoid would had been a nice platform for machine consciousness research... Here we can see four prototypes in the dance floor: ... |
Robo-One 2006 wrestling
There are many problems where the application of machine consciousness would be a valuable advantage. Even in robot wrestling competitions, let's have a look what is the state of the art in this field: ... |
Lego NXT Spike
The spike model is one of the standard models that comes with the Lego Mindstorms NXT kit.
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Aibo Dancing
This video demonstrates that Aibos can dance
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Aibo Swimming
Who said Aibo is not an aquatic robot? Don't try this at home using real water...
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ICybie dancing
Here we have an ICybie robot (2005 version I think) dacing:
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Asimo Fall
Even the best robots have problems some times... And relating this accident with machine consciousness (attention focus concretelly) let me cite one comment of this video: "Asimo should look where he's going instead of flirting with the crowd:)"
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Robotic Mule
Robotic Mule.
Here we have a robotic mule by Boston Dynamics. This quadruped robot known as BigDog is awesome walking on rough terrain, it is even tolerant to bothering humans kicking its back! Hopefully this robot has no machine consciousness... |
Books
Here you will find reviews about Consciousness and Machine Consciousness Books. ... |
Robotics Studio...
Welcome to www.Conscious-Robots.com pages for MRDS (Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio)!
As part of the research work on machine consciousness, the Conscious-Robots.com team is performing a number of experiments with autonomous mobile robots. The Microsoft... |
Robotics Developer Studio Resources and Howto
This category contains a number of short HOWTO documents about Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. Also, some interesting resources are added to this category. ... |
How to learn CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime)
How to learn CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime)
CCR is a key component of Robotics Developer Studio, and you need to understand how it works in order to effectively write robotics application in MRDS. An excellent resource about CCR is chapter 2 of the... |
Book: Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio
Book: Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio
Author
Sara Morgan
Pages
288
Disk
1 null
Level
Int/Adv
Published
03/12/2008
ISBN
9780735624320 About the Book
Visualize, build, and deploy the next innovation... |
Book: Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
ISBN: 978-0-470-14107-6
Paperback
826 pages
May 2008
Wrox's Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio is one of the first guides to Microsoft's new platform for visualizing and programming... |
How to be automatically authenticated to the DSS Node
How to be automatically authenticated to the DSS Node?
When you connect to the Robotics Studio GUI with a browser you should be automatuically authenticated to the DSS node. However, sometimes, depending on your settings, you are asked a user and password... |
How to use the new features of C# 2.0
When you look for the first time to the C# sample code provided with Robotics Studio you will notice that some new features of this language are extensively used. Statements like yield return, yield break, and IEnumerator<ITask> might... |
Getting started with Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS)
How to get started with the Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) Platform?
Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Key... |
Getting started with the Visual Programming Language (VPL)
How to get started with the Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) Visual Programming Language (VPL)?
First things first: at least you need to have an idea of what Microsoft Robotics Studio is, so having a look to the introduction is a must unless you are... |
Coordinate system in Simulation Environment
What coordinate system is used in Microsoft Robotics Studio Simulation Environment?
MSRS Visual Simulation Environment uses the right handed coordinate system. In a right handed coordinate system a rotation about a directed axis is called positive if it... |
ARCOS Serial Port Configuration
How to setup the serial port to communicate with an ARCOS robot?
The concrete case I am describing here is a MobileRobots Pioneer 3 DX robot, but I think this applies to any ARCOS based robot.
Interfacing with the Pioneer 3 DX hardware via Microsoft Robotics... |
Finding contracts in a service assembly
How to retrieve service contracts and operations from a service assembly?
I came to this question when looking for the generic contract for Sonar. It is actually defined in the assembly RoboticsCommon.dll. All the generic contracts I use are defined... |
More than 20 ports in a PortSet
How to use more than twenty ports in a PortSet?
In Robotics Studio the operations supported by a service are also defined as ports in a CCR PortSet (Microsoft.Ccr.Core.PortSet). And the former is defined as a set of generic ports: PortSet<T0, ..., T19>... |
How to create a generic contract
How to build a service assembly containing generic contract(s)?
I asked this question in the MSRS forum as I wanted to test different exploration algorithms with minimal impact in my existing code, and I think the correct way to do it is by defining... |
Robotics Studio Services
This category includes some of the MRDS services developed for our research and teaching work. ... |
Logitech Webcam Pan Tilt Service
Logitech Webcam Pan Tilt Service (PanTiltCam Service)
The CRUBOTS Pan Tilt Service for Logitech webcams (PanTiltCam service) is a component to be used with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio to control the pan and tilt functions of a Logitech webcam like the... |
CRUBOTS
CRUBOTS
Conscious-Robots.com Utilities for Robot Simulation
CRUBOTS is a set of Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) services developed as part of a research program in Machine Consciousness. Although these services were developed originally to work with the CERA-CRANIUM... |
Simulated GPS Service
Simulated Pioneer GPS Service
The Simulated Pioneer GPS service provides a simple localization service to be used in the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio simulator. It consists in a simple box shape entity (PioneerGPSEntity) that can be attached to a simulated... |
Simulated Pioneer 3DX Bumper
SimulatedPioneerBumper Service
Microsoft Robotics Studio comes with a simulated Pioneer 3DX entity that can be used in the Visual Simulation Environment. This simulated robot can be equipped with several simulated sensors, like the LRF or the simulated bumper... |
ExplorerSimSonar Application
ExplorerSimSonar Application
ExplorerSimSonar Application is a set of MSRS services used to recreate a virtual maze-like environment and experiment with a simulated Pioneer 3 DX robot equipped with a frontal Sonar array.
The archive available for download... |
Explorer Sim Sonar Service
Explorer Sim Sonar Service
The ExplorerSimSonar Service is a modification of MSRS Explorer which works with the simulated sonar, instead of using the Simulated Laser Range Finder. It is based on the ExplorerSim service, which is an adaptation of the Explorer service... |
Control Panel Service (Dashboard)
The Control Panel service is a version of the Dashboard service by Trevor Taylor in which a control for representing the simulated Sonar has been added. Dashboard is based on the MSRS Simple Dashboard service. Dashboard original code and documentation can be... |
Maze Simulator Service
This Maze Simulator Service for Microsoft Robotics Studio is 99% based on the MSRS Maze Simulator by Trevor Taylor (find the original version following this link to Trevor's page). I just modified it to use my simulated Sonar service instead of the simulated... |
Simulated SONAR Service
The Simulated SONAR Service provides access to a simulated SONAR array. It uses Robotics Studio Simulator raycasting to simulate SONAR transducers. Using this service you are able to test SONAR object detection and distance measurement in the MSRS Visual Environment... |
ARCOS SONAR Service
ARCOS based robots (like the Pioneer P3-DX) can integrate up to four SONAR rings, each with eight transducers. These sensors provide object detection and distance information. I am currently using the inbuilt frontal SONAR array for navigation with MSRS.
The... |
ConcurrentLogger for .NET
ConcurrentLogger is a quite simple .NET class that allows you to write a unique and sequential log file from a multi-thread application. I am programming robotics applications using MSRS, and I wanted to generate an independent log file that could be safely created... |
Robotics Studio News
News related to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio, with a focus on new platform version and package releases. ... |
Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3
Microsoft Robotics have recently announced the release of Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3, which is now available for download free of charge
More information and direct download is available at RDS official website: http://www.microsoft.com/robotics/ ... |
Simulation Programming Language
News from the MRDS Blog (by Trevor Taylor):
New tool and tutorials for learning about Robotics Developer Studio
Young Joon Kim in Korea maintains a web site about Robotics Developer Studio called HelloApps. He has recently added the topics below:... |
MRDS 2008 R2 Released
The Microsoft Robotics group has released the R2 version of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (RDS 2008). They have also launched a brand new website at www.microsoft.com/robotics (which you won't be able to see correctly unless you have Silverlight... |
MRDS will not be at RoboCup 2009
No MRDS Simulation Competition at RoboCup 2009
Although Microsoft is still supporting RoboCup as sponsor, partnership with RoboCup has been relocated from Robotics Developer Studio team to Microsoft Research – Human-Robot Interaction. This new focus implies... |
Released Robotics Developer Studio 2008
Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Express Edition Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Standard Edition Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Academic EditionMicrosoft Robotics Group has recently released the final version of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (also known... |
RoboChamps Competition
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... |
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP April
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP April Available
Yesterday (9th April 2008) Microsoft Robotics group announced the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008. This platform in the thrid version of the formerly... |
Conscious-Robots.com joins Microsoft Robotics Studio
Conscious-Robots.com joins Microsoft Robotics Studio as a partner
As announced by Microsoft Robotics Group last January, Conscious-Robots.com has now joined Microsoft Robotics Studio Partner Program (MSRSPP). Conscious-Robots.com is an organization dedicated... |
Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) Refresh
Microsoft Robotics have relased an update of the Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 platform. This update, called Refresh, include bugfixes and some new features as a response to the comments, requests and bug reports received from the community in the MSDN forums... |
Robotics Studio 1.5 Released
Microsoft Robotics Group has released the second official version (1.5) of Microsoft Robotics Studio. This version can be downloaded from this link.
For those of you who don't know what Robotics Studio is, let me quote Microsoft: The... |
Robotics Studio 1.5 May 2007 CTP
May 2007 Community Technical Preview of the Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 has been released as announced by Trandy Trower, Genral Manager, Microsoft Robotics Group.
Welcome Letter is publised at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/bb432177... |
RoboCup Simulator for Robotics Studio
Microsoft Releases Soccer Simulation for Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.0)- Preview March 2007
If you were wondering how to set your CPU Idle time to 0% and didn't find a funny way to do it, maybe this is interesting for you (but don't try it at home while you are... |
Robotics Studio 1.0 Released
Microsoft Robotics Group has released the first commercial release of Microsoft Robotics Studio. This version can be downloaded from this link.
For those of you who don't know what Robotics Studio is, let me quote Microsoft: The Microsoft Robotics Studio... |
Microsoft Robotics Studio November 2006 CTP
Microsoft Robotics Group has released the November 2006 Community Technical Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft Robotics Studio. This version can be downloaded from this link.
As announced last November 7th Microsoft has released the November 2006 CTP... |
Microsoft Robotics Studio October 2006 CTP
Microsoft Robotics Group has released the October 2006 Community Technical Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft Robotics Studio. This version can be downloaded from this link.
For those of you who don't know what Robotics Studio is, let me quote Microsoft:... |
Robotics Studio Forums
Forums, questions, answers, discussion, and links about Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. ... |
Robocup MSRS Challenge Maillist
This is a mail list for the participants in the RoboCup MSRS Challenge. The list is for announcements and discussions relating to the RoboCup Microsoft Robotics Studio Challenge.
Go to RoboCup-MSRS list page.
Following the link... |
MSRS Official Forums
Microsoft Robotics Studio official forums are part of the MSDN Forums, there you can find discussion threads for Comunity, CCR, DSS, VPL, Hardware configuration and Simulation.
Microsoft Robotics Studio Forums.
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Conscious-Robots.com Forum for MSRS (Spanish)
The www.Conscious-Robots.com Forums have a section dedicated to Microsoft Robotics Studio in Spanish, feel free to participate in this forum if your preferred language is Spanish and you have questions, critiques, or comments regarding MSRS:
Foro MSRS de... |
Conscious-Robots.com Forum for MSRS (English)
The www.Conscious-Robots.com Forums have a section dedicated to Microsoft Robotics Studio, feel free to participate in these forums if you have questions, critiques, or comments regarding MSRS:
MSRS Forum at Conscious-Robots.com
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Robotics Studio Downloads
Microsoft Robotics Studio Downloads: Runtime, extra packages, services, tutorials and courseware. ... |
Conscious-Robots.com Downloads for Robotics Developer Studio 2008
Conscious-Robots.com Downloads for Robotics Developer Studio 2008
Now that the official release of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 is out, I've published a new download category where services migrated to the new MRDS 2008 are available (only source code)... |
www.Conscious-Robots.com Download Page
This is a link to the www.Conscious-Robots.com Download Page where you can find Robotics Studio Services:
Conscious-Robots.com Download Page
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Microsoft Robotics Studio Download Page
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Microsoft Robotics Studio Downloads
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Documentación en Español (Spanish Documentation)
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Programación en VPL de un control básico para el robot Lego NXT Alpha-Rex
Programación en VPL de un control básico para el robot Lego NXT Alpha-Rex
En este apartado se va a proceder a la construcción de un sistema básico de control (automático y manual) que nos permita convertir el humanoide de Lego en un pequeño boxeador, cuyo principal... |
Uso de los Servicios de Lego NXT en VPL
Uso de los Servicios de Lego NXT en VPL
Los servicios del nuevo Lego Mindstorms NXT han sido diseñados expresamente para ser usados con VPL.
Los servicios del Lego Mindstorms NXT son fáciles de configurar y proveen una arquitectura extensible al uso de sensores... |
Algunos trucos de VPL
Algunos trucos de VPL
Algunos trucos para gestionar los servicios del robot Lego NXT en Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio VPL. Crear un nombre de grupo con todos los servicios NXT
En VPL se pueden crear nombres de grupos de servicios para poder agrupar un... |
Programación en VPL. Encendiendo la luz intermitente
Programación en VPL. Encendiendo la luz intermitente del robot Lego NXT
Para comenzar todos los programas sobre el NXT será necesario añadir un Brick. Este es el servicio que comunica directamente con el hardware del brick del NXT.
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Programación en VPL. Explorador Ultrasónico con Lego NXT
Programación en VPL. Explorador Ultrasónico con Lego NXT
Como para todos los programas, se debe comenzar añadiendo y configurando un brick para el Lego NXT. Para ello revise el punto anterior de esta misma sección.
A continuación, se añadirá un sensor ultrasónico... |
Gestionando la ejecución de un un programa en el Lego NXT
Gestionando la ejecución de un un programa en el Lego NXT
Este diagrama de ejemplo busca un programa actualmente en ejecución en el Brick del Lego NXT, muestra el nombre del programa y da la oportunidad de pararlo y volverlo a arrancar. Obviamente el programa... |
Tutorial de Robótica en VPL. Drive by Wire
Tutorial de Robótica en VPL. Drive by Wire (Conducción mediante cursor o joystick)
Microsoft Robotics Studio proporciona una reutilización de los diseños mediante la escritura de Servicios. Este diseño le permite escribir un servicio (una vez) para una especificación... |
Tutorial de Robótica en VPL. Orquestación de Servicios Reusable
Tutorial de Robótica en VPL. Creación de una Orquestación de Servicios Reusable
Microsoft Robotics Studio proporciona una reutilización de los diseños mediante la escritura de Servicios. Este diseño le permite escribir un servicio (una vez) para una especificación... |
Tutorial de Robótica con VPL. Coordinación de Servicios
Tutorial de Robótica con VPL. Coordinación de Servicios
Este tutorial está basado en el anterior “Accediendo a un servicio”. Se usará un sensor para encender y apagar un motor. Se usará el sensor y el motor del Lego NXT. El tutorial se encuentra en la carpeta... |
Tutorial de Robótica VPL. Accediendo a un Servicio
Tutorial de Robótica VPL. Accediendo a un Servicio
La escritura de aplicaciones en MRDS es una orquestación de las entradas y salidas de un conjunto de servicios. Los servicios representan una interfaz para el software o hardware y permiten la comunicación entre... |
Tutorial VPL. Ejecutar una Simulación desde VPL
Tutorial VPL. Ejecutar una Simulación desde VPL
Este tutorial demostrará cómo se puede iniciar una simulación en VPL. Para ello se creará un proyecto en VPL que permitirá conducir un robot a través de un mundo simulado. Este tutorial se encuentra en la carpeta... |
Tutorial VPL. Creación de tu propia Actividad
Tutorial VPL. Creación de tu propia Actividad
El presente tutorial utiliza el anterior apartado para ilustrar cómo crear su propia actividad y de esta forma crear aplicaciones modulares. Este tutorial se encuentra en la carpeta de instalación de MSRDS bajo la... |
Tutorial VPL. Incrementar un Valor
Tutorial VPL. Incrementar un Valor
Este tutorial introduce algunos otros flujos básicos para el control de flujo en VPL. Se crea una variable, se inicializa, y luego cuenta hasta diez, haciendo uso de la conversión texto a voz en cada iteración. Este tutorial... |
Tutorial VPL. Hola Mundo
Tutorial VPL. Hola Mundo
Este tutorial es la clásica introducción para la mayoría de lenguajes de programación que muestra las palabras "Hola Mundo". Es posible realizarlo en VPL utilizando dos bloques: un bloque de datos y un bloque de diálogo simple. Este... |
Guía de Referencia de VPL
Guía de Referencia de VPL
Microsoft Visual Programming Language posee un conjunto de actividades básicas que son usadas para ayudar a crear un flujo de programas de datos. Actividades Básicas
Estos bloques son normalmente usados para conectar bloques de servicios,... |
Generación de Código en VPL
Generación de Código en VPL
Las versiones actuales de VPL poseen un generador de código que permite convertir un diagrama en VPL a código C#, generando un ensamblado de uno más servicios DSS. Esto permite un desarrollo fácil y que pueda ser combinado con la... |
Ejecución y Depuración en VPL
Ejecución y Depuración en VPL
Para ejecutar tu proyecto VPL, seleccionar “start” del menú “run”. Aparece un cuadro de diálogo con un hiperenlace y una traza de depuración así como un botón de parar, para detener la ejecución del proyecto. Pulsar en el hiperenlace... |
Conexión de Actividades en VPL
Conexión de Actividades en VPL
Para conectar dos bloques de actividades, arrastre el pin de conexión de una actividad al de otra. Si hay múltiples caminos (entradas y salidas) para conectar las actividades, aparecerá el cuadro de diálogo de conexión para poder... |
Configuración de Servicios en VPL
Configuración de Servicios en VPL
Los servicios requieren información de configuración acerca de cómo deberían comenzar (valores para el estado inicial) y también sobre que otros “servicios compañeros” necesitarían también que fuesen arrancados simultáneamente... |
Creación y Edición de Actividades VPL
Creación y Edición de Actividades VPL
La creación de sus propias actividades es posible gracias al entorno que proporciona VPL.
Si desea crearlas, arrastre un icono de actividad desde la caja de herramientas de actividades básicas y ábrala usando el... |
Creación de un Diagrama VPL
Creación de un Diagrama VPL
Arrancar el Microsoft Visual Program Language (Lenguaje de programación visual de Microsoft), seleccionando su entrada en el menú inicio -> programas -> Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) --> Visual Programmig Laguage... |
Introducción a VPL
El Lenguaje VPL (Visual Programming Language)
Microsoft Visual Programming Language (VPL) es un entorno de desarrollo de aplicaciones diseñado sobre un modelo gráfico de programación basado en flujo de datos, es más que un simple control de flujo de los que... |
Lenguaje de Programación Visual (VPL)
VPL - Lenguaje de Programación Visual (VPL)
Microsoft Visual Programming Lenguaje (VPL) es un entorno que ofrece un modelo de programación gráfico y que permite una programación convencional. El objetivo de este lenguaje de programación es facilitar a... |
Entorno de Simulación Visual
Entorno de Simulación Visual de Microsoft Robotics Studio
Uno de los mayores motivos por el que se creó MSRS era acelerar el desarrollo y adopción de la robótica. Gran parte de este esfuerzo está centrado en la simulación. Se ha diseñado una simulación con una... |
Introducción a Microsoft Robotics Studio
Introducción a Microsoft Robotics Studio
Microsoft Robotics Studio es un entorno de desarrollo para docentes o profesionales orientado a la creación de aplicaciones de robótica. Entre otras, las funcionalidades clave de Microsoft Robotics Studio son proporcionar... |
Introducción a DSS (Decentralized Software Services)
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... |
Introducción a los Iteradores (Iterators) en C# 2.0
Introducción a los Iteradores (Iterators) en C# 2.0
Una característica novedosa del lenguaje C# 2.0 usada por CCR son los Iteradores (Iterators), que permiten que en lugar de usar delegados para conseguir el comportamiento asíncrono, el programador pueda reescribir... |
Introducción a CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime)
Introducción a C.C.R.: Concurrency and Coordination Runtime
Un aspecto muy importante en el desarrollo de una aplicación de control para un robot es la coordinación de múltiples tareas interactivas y simultáneas. Este paradigma se conoce como programación asíncrona... |
Publications...
In this section we try to collect the most salient Books, articles, papers, conferences and media about consciousness and machine consciousness.
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Books
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ARISTOTLE'S LAPTOP
Vol. 1 of the World Scientific Series on Machine Consciousness
ARISTOTLE'S LAPTOP The Discovery of our Informational Mind by Igor Aleksander (Imperial College London, UK) & Helen Morton (Imperial College London, UK)
Aristotle's convincing... |
CONSCIOUSNESS AND ROBOT SENTIENCE
World Scientific Series on Machine Consciousness - Vol. 2
CONSCIOUSNESS AND ROBOT SENTIENCE by Pentti O.A. Haikonen
Available now for pre-order at World Scientific and Amazon!
Robots are becoming more human, but could they also... |
Mind that Abides
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... |
The Puzzle of the Brain: Conciousness
The Puzzle of the Brain: Conciousness
This book is currently underway, but some chapters are already available online: SetShift. SetShift is a research group of the University of Granada, Spain. The book is written in Spanish and covers many aspects of... |
Artificial Consciousness
Artificial Consciousness
ed. Antonio Chella & Riccardo Manzotti 280 pages January 2007 ISBN: 9781845400705
The book is interdisciplinary and focuses on the topic of artificial consciousness: from neuroscience to artificial intelligence, from... |
Searching for Spirit
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 many religions that there is... |
Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines
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... |
The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines
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... |
Aleksander (1996) Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness
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publicado 1996 Imperial College Press
Psychology
ISBN 1860940366
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Holland (2003) Machine Consciousness
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Autor Owen Holland
publicado 2003 Imprint Academic
Psychology
250 páginas
ISBN 090784524X
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Dennett (1992) Consciousness Explained
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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books (October 20, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316180661
ISBN-13: 978-0316180665
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
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Baars (1988) A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness
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By Bernard J. Baars
Published 1988 Cambridge University Press
Psychology
448 pages
ISBN 0521427436
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Conferences
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First International Workshop on Artificial Consciousness
First International Workshop on Artificial ConsciousnessTaormina, Italy, September 2-6, 2013 at ECAL 2013 About this Workshop The workshop is devoted to... |
AGI - Artificial General Intelligence 2013
AGI 2013 - Artificial General Intelligence 2013 - Beijing, July 31 - Aug 3 2013: Call for PapersIt is our great pleasure to remind you about the Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, which will be held in Beijing, China, this upcoming summer... |
CFP: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2013
Paper submissions and special session proposals are invited to the International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (http://sentic.net/bics ) to be held in Beijing next June. TIMEFRAME• February 1st, 2013: Due date for special session proposals... |
CfP "Enaction: Challenges and Successes" AISB'13
CALL FOR PAPERS: Enaction: Challenges and Successes We are pleased to announce the AISB symposium "Enaction: Challenges and Successes" to take place during the AISB Annual Convention 2013, Univ. Exeter, UK, April 2-5th, 2013. http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-... |
General Intelligence in Embodied Agents
conference session on General Intelligence in Embodied Agents, as part of an IEEE Symposium on Human-Level AI WHEN/WHERE : 15 Mon -19 Fri April 2013, Singapore PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 12 (12-12-12, midnight GMT), no further extensions Please join us... |
II ReteCog Workshop on Interaction 2013
II Workshop ReteCog on Interaction 2013 17-18th January, 2013Zaragoza, Spainhttp://retecog2013.unizar.es ScopeIn the aftermath of Turing's anniversary, who famously proposed an interactive test of intelligence, the Spanish Network of Research in Cognitive... |
CPF: IMPACTS AND RISKS OF ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS:
'IMPACTS AND RISKS OF ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE' (AGI IMPACTS 2012)
10-11.12.2012, OXFORD
http://www.winterintelligence.org/oxford2012/agi-impacts/cfp/
The first conference on the Impacts and Risks of Artificial General Intelligence... |
Cognition and Consciousness. Retecog Summer School 2012
“Cognition and Consciousness” Retecog Summer School 2012
5-8 June 2012, Menorca, Spain. http://summerschool.retecog.net/
Invited Lecturers: Kevin O’Regan, Anil Seth, Ap Dijsterkuis & Arne Öhman.
Introduction
The Retecog Network fosters interdisciplinary... |
CFP: Advances in Cognitive and Emotional Information Processing (ACEIP)
Call for Papers Advances in Cognitive and Emotional Information Processing (ACEIP)
Submissions are invited for a special session on Advances in Cognitive and Emotional Information Processing (ACEIP) to be held within the 2012 International Symposium... |
Robotica 2012: 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
Robotica 2012: 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
April 11, 2012, Guimarães, Portugal
The 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (www.Robotica2012.org/EC) is an international... |
2012. The Alan Turing Year
2012 The Alan Turing Year
A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Alan Turing
June 23, 2012, is the Centenary of Alan Turing’s birth in London. During his relatively brief life, Turing made a unique impact on the history of computing, computer science,... |
BICA 2012
BICA 2012 http://bicasociety.org/2012/ Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA), Third Annual Meeting of the BICA Society Palermo, Italy, October 31st - November 3rd
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EAIS 2012
EAIS 2012
2012 IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems
Deadline extended: February, 15. 2012.
This EAIS Edition will be held in Madrid, Spain, between May 17-18, 2012.
One of the important research challenges today is to develop... |
ASSC 16
ASSC16, Brighton, UK, July 02-06 2012
The 16th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
http://www.theassc.org/conferences/assc_16 We are delighted to announce that the 16th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study... |
Toward a Science of Consciousness - Stockholm - Live Streaming
Live Streaming from TSC 2011 at Stockholm: http://www.mindevent.se/live-streaming/
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Retecog 2011 - The Architectures of Mind
ReteCog.Net 2011 Workshop The Architectures of Mind
Workshop ReteCog.Net 2011: The architectures of Mind Dates: 4-6 July Venue: ASLab, Madrid, Spain
ReteCog 2011 is centered around the major topic of COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE. Unveiling the architecture... |
Machine Consciousness 2011: Self, Integration and Explanation
MC2011
Machine Consciousness 2011: Self, Integration and Explanation Call for Papers
Abstract submission deadline: December 31st, 2010.
Extended Abstract submission deadline: **January 9th, 2011**
Submissions are invited for presentation at MC2011,... |
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011
TSC 2011: The 18th Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference Brain, Mind and Reality May 2-8, 2011 Stockholm University
Toward a Science of Consciousness is an interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious... |
ASSC 14 - Toronto
The 14th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held in Toronto, Canada from Thursday 24th – Sunday 27th, June 2010. Symposium and Tutorial proposals due Oct. 30th 2009.
Confirmed Speakers:
• Robert... |
Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010
Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010 April 12-17, 2010 Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona
Sponsored by: The Center for Consciousness Studies, The University of Arizona www.consciousness.arizona.edu
The ninth biennial Tucson conference Toward a Science... |
The Singularity. Could robots take over the world?
The Singularity. Could robots take over the world?
Madrid Science Week talk by Raul Arrabales. FNAC Parquesur. November 12, 2009. 19:00. Current developments in AI and Artificial Cognitive Systems, specifically those based on Machine Consciousness, make... |
BICA. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2009
BICA. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2009
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... |
NIPS International Workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness
NIPS International Workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness
The NIPS international workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness (NIPS-SSC) will be held at the Okazaki Conference Center (Aichi, Japan) in Sep 19-20, 2009. This workshop is an official satellite... |
BICS 2010. Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference
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... |
Knowledge, Understanding and 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... |
ASSC XIII
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 Humanities. ASSC XIII is... |
Second International Seminar on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence
2nd International Seminar on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence
February 2 - 6, 2009 Carlos III University of Madrid Colmenarejo Campus Avda. Universidad Carlos III, 22 28270 Colmenarejo (Madrid) SPAIN
Organized by ScALAB... |
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS 2009
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS, Hong Kong 14th June 2009
This workshop organized by Gino Yu and Ben Goertzel will be co-colocated with Toward a Science of Consciousness conference (to be held 12th~-14th JUNE 2009). This workshop will... |
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009
Announcement and Call for Papers
Investigating Inner Experience Brain, Mind, Technology Hong Kong, China, June 11-14, 2009 www.asiaconsciousness.org/TSC
Long a meeting place for Eastern and Western ideas and the... |
Cognitive Robotics and Machine Consciousness
Cognitive Robotics and Machine Consciousness
VIII Madrid Science Week
Monday 17th November 2008. From 10:15 to 11:15. University Carlos III of Madrid. Auditorio Leganés.
Abstract: Robots are becoming a commodity and their domestic use will spread... |
Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness 2008
A personal summary of the Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness 2008
For someone like me, seriously interested in Machine Consciousness, the Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness 2008 was definitely the place to be. Celebrated this month in conjunction... |
13th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference (STeP 2008)
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,... |
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008
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... |
3rd Computer Science Symposium at UEM
3rd Computer Science Symposium at UEM 15-16 November 2007
Villaviciosa de Odón Campus – Universidad Europea de Madrid
The UEM Computer Science Symposium is a seven years old event hold at the Villaviciosa de Odon campus of the European University of Madrid.... |
Models of Consciousness Workshop 2003
Models of Consciousness
ESF/PESC Exploratory Workshop
Ricardo Sanz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Ron Chrisley (University of Sussex). Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham).
October 15, 2003.
Models of Consciousness - Scientific Report.
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International Workshop on Artificial Consciousness 2005
International Workshop on Artificial Consciousness
23-24 November 2005 - Agrigento - Sicily
Organizing commitee: Antonio Chella Riccardo Manzotti
The workshop is an interdisciplinary event focused on the topic of artificial consciousness: from neuroscience... |
Consciousness and AI. AAAI Symposium. 2007
Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence: Theoretical foundations and current approaches
AAAI Symposium, Washington DC, 8-11 November 2007
Symposium objectives (*) The symposium will provide a lively and focused venue to present the current state... |
Journals on Consciousness & Machine Consciousness
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Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics
Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics
Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics is a new journal launched by Versita (www.versita.com/pjbr), a science publisher in Central and Eastern Europe and distributed by Springer.
Paladyn is a peer-reviewed, electronic-only... |
Journal of Mind Theory
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... |
International Journal of Social Robotics
International Journal of Social Robotics
Social Robotics is the study of robots that are able to interact and communicate between themselves, with humans, and with the environment, within the social and cultural structure attached to its role. I believe Social... |
JAGI Special Issue on Machine Consciousness
Call for Papers for Special Issue of the Journal of AGI on Machine Consciousness
We'd like to call your attention to the forthcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, on the subject of Machine Consciousness, for which the... |
International Journal of Machine Consciousness
International Journal of Machine Consciousness (IJMC)
World Scientific Editor-in-Chief Antonio Chella
The journal examines the theoretical foundations of conscious machines and analyzes current approaches to machine consciousness. It offers unity and... |
Cognitive Computation
Cognitive Computation
Editor-in-Chief: Amir Hussain, PhD ISSN: 1866-9956 (print version) Journal no. 12559 Springer New York Cognitive Computation is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that publishes cutting-edge articles describing... |
Journal of Consciousness Studies
Journal of Consciousness Studies
JCS covers the following topics: - How does the mind relate to the brain? - Can computers ever be conscious? - What do we mean by subjectivity and the self?
These questions are being keenly debated in fields as diverse as cognitive... |
Mind Matters
Mind Matters is a new, expert-written blog on the sciences of mind and brain by Scientific American.
Scientific American blogs offer opinions, arguments and anlyses from the editors:
Sciam.com's "seminar blog" on the sciences of mind and brain. Each week, top... |
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE (eISSN-1932-6203) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication from the Public Library of Science (PLoS). PLoS ONE welcomes reports on primary research from any scientific discipline.
PLoS ONE features reports of primary research... |
Mind and Machines
Minds and Machines
Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Editor: J.H. Moor
ISSN: 0924-6495 (print version) ISSN: 1572-8641 (electronic version) Journal no. 11023 Springer Netherlands
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Consciousness and Cognition
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... |
PSYCHE
PSYCHE an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness. PSYCHE is an official journal of the association for the scientific study of consciousness.
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Papers
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IJMC - Special Issue on Machine Consciousness: Self, Integration and Explanation
International Journal of Machine Consciousness Special Issue on Machine Consciousness: Self, Integration and Explanation Selected Papers from the 2011 AISB Workshop
As usual, these papers have been indexed in the MC Papers database. See below the table of contents... |
Fourth Issue of the IJMC
The Fourth Issue (Vol. 2 No. 2. December 2010) of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness is now online
This is a special issue devoted to BICA (Brain Inspired Cognitive Architectures) and MC (Machine Consciousness) with selected papers from BICA... |
Free Access to IJMC Sloman Papers
Now the three invited papers by Aaron Sloman that were recently published in the third issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness (IJMC) are freely available:
Vol. 2 No. 1 (June 2010) pp. 1-18 AN ALTERNATIVE TO WORKING ON MACHINE... |
Third Issue of the IJMC
Third Issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness Available
The third issue of the IJMC (volume 2, issue 1, June 2010) is now available online! This issue is centered around the target paper "An Alternative to Working on Machine Consciousness"... |
Haikonen's Doctoral Thesis - Part III
Pentti Haikonen Doctoral Thesis - Part III (Simulations and Conclusions) available for download
Pentti Haikonen is one of the most salient researchers on Machine Consciousness. His PhD Thesis entitled:
"An Artificial Cognitive Neural System Based on a Novel... |
Second Issue of the IJMC
Second Issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness Available
The second issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness is available online (Vol. 1. Issue 2. December 2009)! The second issue of IJMC is a collection of selected... |
Discussion on Robot Consciousness
The Fall 2009 APA newsletter includes a discussion on Robot Consciousness featuring two papers, one by Stan Franklin, Bernard Baars, and Uma Ramamurthy, and other by Pentti Haikonen.This fall newsletter on Philosophy and Computers from the American... |
APA Newsletter: Phenomenal Machine Consciousness
Phenomenal Machine Consciousness APA Newsletters on Philosohpy and Computers. Spring 2009. Vol. 8 No. 2. Articles on Phenomenal Machine Consciousness by Igor Aleksander and Pentti O. A. Haikonen.The American Philosophical Association (APA) Newsletters... |
First Issue of the IJMC
First Issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness Available
The first issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness is available online (Vol. 1. Issue 1. June 2009)! This new journal, exclusively dedicated to the field of Machine... |
Machine Consciousness Bibliography
Machine Consciousness Bibliography
A searchable compilation of selected papers on Machine Consciousness (updated weekly):
MC-Papers
MC-Papers or Machine Consciousness Bibliography is an online database containing indexed... |
The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers
The American Philosophical Association (APA) Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers.
Issue on Robot Consciousness.
The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers contains some public access papers on machine consciousness. Recent Vol. 08, No. 1 (Fall 2008) (PDF)... |
Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness Proceedings
Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness 2008
August 21 - 22. 2008. Nokia Research Center, Itämerenkatu 11 - 13, Helsinki, Finland. Conference Proceedings
Conference Proceedings
Booklet Cover (pdf)
Table of Contents (pdf)
Big Visions. Preface... |
MindPapers - Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
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 18000 entries... |
Finding papers about consciousness and robotics
The following list is a compilation of bibliographic search engines and scientific paper indexes, where you can look for publications related to your areas of interest.
Note that given my particular area of interest (Machine Consciousness) I have focused on neurosciences,... |
Upcoming Call for Papers
This is a link to an online application where you can add, view and manage the call for papers from the conferences of your interest.
Call for Papers Application.
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Philosophy Research Papers on Consciousness
This is a link to "Philosophy Research Papers on Consciousness", a web page by Eric Lormand (University of Michigan). Click here to see the list of consciousness papers on that site. ... |
Papers on consciousness compilation by David Chalmers
This is a link to a big list of papers on consciousness compiled by David Chalmers. click here to access to his page. ... |
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