1. AAAI Machine Consciousness Tutorial
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2. JAGI Special Issue on Machine Consciousness
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3. International Workshop on Machine Consciousness
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4. ConsScale. A Pragmatic Scale for Measuring the Level of Consciousness in Artificial Agents
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One of the key problems the field of Machine Consciousness (MC) is currently facing is the need to accurately assess the potential level of consciousness that an artificial agent might develop. This p

5. 9 Will we ever build a sentient machine? (Cover story).
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The article discusses research on and advances in artificial or machine consciousness. The Intelligent Distribution Agent (IDA) assembled by researcher Stan Franklin is said to use conscious and uncon

6. An Alternative to Working on Machine Consciousness
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This paper extends three decades of work arguing that researchers who discuss consciousness should not restrict themselves only to (adult) human minds, but should study (and attempt to model) many kin

7. Does Sloman Criticise Sloman?
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Sloman's critique of almost all the work that goes under the heading of Machine Consciousness (MC) stems from his assertion that one cannot base a constructive science on a confused concept. This brie

8. Sloman and H-Consciousness
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Sloman criticizes all existing attempts to define machine consciousness for being overly one-sided. He argues that such definition is not only unattainable but also unnecessary. The critique is well t

9. Which kind of Machine Consciousness?
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10. Is there Anything or Nothing? On the Proper Stance for Consciousness Analysis
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The lack of clarity concerning the issues at stake in machine consciousness and the unclear objectives pursued by the different approaches are the main reasons behind the half-program, half-pun Sloman

11. Machine Consciousness: Responses to Commentaries
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This is a reply to commentaries on my article "An Alternative to Working on Machine Consciousness". Reading the commentaries caused me to write a lengthy background tutorial paper explaining some of t

12. Machine consciousness, ambisonics.
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The purpose of this paper is to review machine consciousness (MC) and machine modelling of consciousness (MMC) with acknowledgement that their study may contribute to understanding of biological consc

13. Designing Conscious Systems
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This paper reviews computational work that is currently developing under the heading of ‘Machine Consciousness’ and sets out to provide a guide for those who wish to contribute to this field. First, q

14. Phenomenological Architecture of a Mind and Operational Architectonics of the Brain
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...n them. Implications for linguistic semantics, self-organized distributed computing algorithms, artificial machine consciousness, and diagnosis of dynamic brain diseases will be discussed briefly....

15. The Potential Impact of Machine Consciousness in Science and Engineering
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This paper critically tracks the impact of the development of the machine consciousness paradigm from the incredulity of the 1990s to the structuring of the turn of this century, and the consolidation

16. Consciousness is Computational: The LIDA Model of Global Workspace Theory
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... human thinking, planning, and perception are produced by adaptive, biological algorithms. We propose that machine consciousness may be produced by similar adaptive algorithms running on the machine. ...

17. Machine Consciousness: A Manifesto for Robotics
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Machine consciousness is not only a technological challenge, but a new way to approach scientific and theoretical issues which have not yet received a satisfactory solution from AI and robotics. We ou

18. The Operative Mind: A Functional, Computational and Modeling Approach to Machine Consciousness
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...hese ideas and a model-based theoretical framework for cognition, we present an architectural proposal for machine consciousness, called the Operative Mind. According to it, machine consciousness coul...

19. Evolutionary Pressures for Perceptual Stability and Self as Guides to Machine Consciousness
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...LIDA controlled mobile robot might provide a small but significant step toward phenomenal consciousness in machines.>8 We also propose that implementing several of the various notions of self in such ...

20. The Philosophical Issue in Machine Consciousness
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Machines can be conscious, is the claim to be adopted here, upon examination of its different versions. We distinguish three kinds of consciousness: functional, phenomenal and hard consciousness (f-,

21. Essential Phenomenology for Conscious Machines: A Note on Franklin, Baars and Ramamurthy: “A Phenomenally Conscious Robot”
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... and Ramamurthy (FBR) in the Fall 2008 issue of APA Newsletters, to draw attention to the existence of the Machine Consciousness paradigm and the fact that both functional and phenomenal computational...

22. CERA-CRANIUM: A Test Bed for Machine Consciousness Research
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This paper describes a novel framework designed s a test bed for machine consciousness cognitive odels (MCCM). This MCCM experimentation ramework is based on a general-purpose cognitive rchitecture th

23. Designing Human-like Video Game Synthetic Characters through Machine Consciousness
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In recent years we are witnessing a huge growth of the video game industry. One of the factors that have contributed to current technology in video games is the improvement of Artificial Intelligence

24. Machine Consciousness: New Opportunities for Information Technology Industry
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... major shortcoming of Artificial Intelligence, one that prevents it to achieve its original goal; thinking machines with full human-like cognition and intelligence. The emerging technology of Machine ...

25. Strategies for Measuring Machine Consciousness
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...ese new measures of consciousness along with other classical approaches focusing on their applicability to Machine Consciousness (MC). Furthermore, we propose a set of requirements of what we think a ...

26. Emotional Cognitive Steps Towards Consciousness
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The academic journey to a widely acknowledged Machine Consciousness is anticipated to be an emotional one. Both in terms of the active debate provoked by the subject and a hypothesized need to encapsu

27. Resilient Architectures to Facilitate both Functional Consciousness and Phenomenal Consciousness in Machines
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Cognitive theories of consciousness should provide effective frameworks to implement machine consciousness. The Global Workspace Theory is a leading theory of consciousness which postulates that the p

28. Assessing and Characterizing the Cognitive Power of Machine Consciousness Implementations
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... the cognitive power of artificial agents is proposed as a helpful tool for the analysis and comparison of Machine Consciousness implementations. This is illustrated with the application of the scale ...

29. Designing Human-like Video Game Synthetic Characters through Machine Consciousness
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In recent years we are witnessing a huge growth of the video game industry. One of the factors that have contributed to current technology in video games is the improvement of Artificial Intelligence

30. Upgrade your brain
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One of the authors main areas of interest is machine consciousness and the blurring of the lines between humans and machines (robots). A lot of people in the field don't think it's very likely, but th