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Thursday, 16 December 2010 |
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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Monday, 23 October 2006 |
 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 text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens and important related works for understanding Darwin's context.
There are other two websites referenced in Darwin-Online home providing complementary Darwin materials:
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Written by Raúl Arrabales Moreno
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Friday, 26 December 2008 |
 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 “mindfiles” already using services like Lifenaut.
Despite of the optimism of this claim, Koch and Tononi recall us that we don’t know yet what consciousness is. They believe that consciousness will be artificially created eventually; however, it might not be the same sort of consciousness as we think.
The first assumption used as the base of the argumentation is that consciousness is produced in the brain by the natural world, and therefore it is controlled by the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology. The activity in the corticothalamic system seems to be a key factor in the production of consciousness. Nevertheless, other functions and brain areas (even those that are characteristic of human beings) are not necessary for the presence of consciousness. Even interaction with the environment could not be necessary for the existence of consciousness (provided that such interaction has existed before). In other words, we can have an entirely inner conscious experience. Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (319) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 4077 |
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Written by Raúl Arrabales Mioreno
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Saturday, 18 April 2009 |
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 can be viewed and downloaded from http://www.davidgamez.eu/mc-thesis/, a site which also contains data files, source code, and supporting materials. Resources you shouldn't miss in you are interested in Machine Consciousness and Synthetic Phenomenology. Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (282) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 2525 |
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