1. JAGI Special Issue on Machine Consciousness
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2. International Workshop on Machine Consciousness
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3. 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

4. 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

5. 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....

6. 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

7. 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. ...

8. 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

9. 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...

10. 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 ...

11. 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-,

12. 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...

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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 ...

20. 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

21. Assessing Artificial Consciousness: A Collective Review Article
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While the recent special issue of JCS on machine consciousness (Volume 14, Issue 7) was in preparation, a collection of papers on the same topic, entitled Artificial Consciousness and edited by Antoni

22. Progress in Machine Consciousness: Back to Basics.
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...ething special about the human version. So it is not surprising that those who study consciousness through machines or even claim that some form of consciousness can arise in machines have a tough tim...

23. Robotanic: an externalist outlook of a robot architecture.
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The current generation of systems for man-machine interaction shows impressive performances with respect to the external shapes, the mechanics and the control of movements; see for example the android

24. 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 hypothesised need to encapsu

25. Achieving Advanced Machine Consciousness through Integrative, Virtually Embodied Artificial General Intelligence
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In my talk I will deal with two somewhat separate issues: 1) What is consciousness (and what is “advanced machine consciousness”)?, 2) What is my plan for achieving advanced machine consciousness?

26. An anthropomimetic robot with imagination: one step closer to machine consciousness?
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...that, when imagining or recalling something, humans (and some animals) appear to use the same sensorimotor machinery that they use for real perceptions and actions; the similarity between the real and...

27. The Role of Qualia in Machine Consciousness; Nothing or Everything? (The Answer Is YES).
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...ering hypotheses may be eventually judged by the success of implementation. A good summary of contemporary machine consciousness research that includes qualia can be found in Aleksander (2007)....

28. ConsScale: A Plausible Test for Machine Consciousness?
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Is consciousness a binary on/off property? Or is it on the contrary a complex phenomenon that can be present in different states, qualities, and degrees? We support the latter and propose a linear inc

29. Applying machine consciousness models in autonomous situated agents
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...entations are analyzed both theoretically and functionally. Also, a novel pragmatic functional approach to machine consciousness is proposed and discussed. A set of axioms for the presence of consciou...

30. Robot Brains. Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines (P. Haikonen; 2007) [Book review]
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...ake a robot conscious. It outlines an engineering approach that should lead toward cognitive and conscious machines. Some of the topics covered include: a vector representation of information as a sub...