1. XCR-1 Robot. Sound direction detection demo
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

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

2. Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011
(Publications/Conferences)

TSC 2011: The 18th Toward a Science of Consciousness ConferenceBrain, Mind and RealityMay 2-8, 2011Stockholm University Toward a Science of Consciousness is an interdisciplinary conference em

3. Conscious-Robots team wins the 2K BotPrize 2010 competition!!!
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

...ERA-CRANIUM Bot 2”) runs the CERA-CRANIUM cognitive architecture [2], which is based on a computational model of consciousness. The CERA-CRANIUM model is one of the results of a research line on Machi...

4. Third Issue of the IJMC
(Publications/Papers)

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 th

5. Haikonen's Doctoral Thesis - Part III
(Publications/Papers)

...ions 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 ...

6. How to Make a Robot that Feels
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

...Regan at the CogSys 2010 conference last week. During this talk O’Regan introduced the so-called hard problem of consciousness (as coined by Chalmers) and explained his sensorimotor approach to (pheno...

7. Haikonen's comment on article by Doan
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

...achines written by Trung Doan. I wish to thank Trung Doan for his analysis of my approach towards machine consciousness here. Trung Doan has done a lot of work here as he illustrates the main p...

8. Pentti Haikonen's architecture for conscious machines
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

... 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 develo...

9. Journal of Mind Theory
(Publications/Journals on Consciousness & Machine Consciousness)

... Jaime Gómez, and the editorial board includes well known experts in the fields of cognitive science and machine consciousness. This journal tries to capture the formal science of mind, attempting t...

10. JAGI Special Issue on Machine Consciousness
(Publications/Journals on Consciousness & 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 Intelli

11. Information Integration Theory of Consciousness
(Conscious Machines/Theories 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 ce

12. TNGS – Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

...e 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. ...

13. BICS 2010. Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference
(Publications/Conferences)

...ernational ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS 2010).- Third International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2010). Motivation Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems - BICS 2010 a...

14. Knowledge, Understanding and Consciousness
(Publications/Conferences)

Knowledge, Understanding and Consciousness 12 October 2009, St. Louis, MO, USAWorkshop on Machine Consciousness within the KIMAS'09 Conference There is an increasing interest in investigating the

15. Consciousness Evolves Besides Genetics
(Researchers and Associations/Interviews and Lectures)

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

16. Robotic Consciousness
(Researchers and Associations/Interviews and Lectures)

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

17. INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS 2009
(Publications/Conferences)

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 c

18. International Journal of Machine Consciousness
(Publications/Journals on Consciousness & Machine Consciousness)

International Journal of Machine Consciousness (IJMC) World ScientificEditor-in-Chief Antonio Chella   The journal examines the theoretical foundations of conscious machines and analyzes cur

19. Experiments in Consciousness
(Neuroscience/NCC)

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 o

20. Higher Order Theories of Consciousness
(Conscious Machines/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

21. Feelix Growing Project
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

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 launche

22. Multiple Draft Model
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

...el (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 reitera...

23. Lucy the Robot
(Reviews/Robots)

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 t

24. Robot Free Will
(Conscious Machines/The Field of Machine Consciousness)

...in charge? Can science tell us what is exactly the human nature? Can we reproduce that in artificial machines? Consciousness and free will have been typically evading the scientific arena. However, ...

25. Global Workspace Theory (GWT)
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

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 sce

26. Interview with Rodolfo Llinás
(Researchers and Associations/Interviews and Lectures)

...the "Well Tempered Clavier" composed by Bach. Could we play with the idea of changes in the configuration of the consciousness through the evolutionary process? R. Llinás: I understand your questio...

27. The Awakening of Conscious Bots
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects - Spanish)

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&n

28. Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011
(Publications/Conferences - Spanish)

TSC 2011: The 18th Toward a Science of Consciousness ConferenceBrain, Mind and RealityMay 2-8, 2011Stockholm University Toward a Science of Consciousness is an interdisciplinary conference em

29. How to Make a Robot that Feels
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots - Spanish)

...Regan at the CogSys 2010 conference last week. During this talk O’Regan introduced the so-called hard problem of consciousness (as coined by Chalmers) and explained his sensorimotor approach to (pheno...

30. JAGI Special Issue on Machine Consciousness
(Publications/Journals on Consciousness & Machine Consciousness - Spanish)

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 Intelli