User talk:Graeme E. Smith/Artificial Consciousness Forum

Hello,

I am Research and Development Engineer in Artificial Intelligence. Recently I am interested to the arificial consciouness.

I am looking for some publications in this field.

Thanks

Abdallah Elkhyari

ESECO SYSTEMS http://www.eseco.fr


 * Nice page.


 * Do you have any background at all, in this aspect of computing? or do we need to start at the beginning, and work you up from there?


 * offhand I would say that three books will get you started:


 * Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness explained, which is mostly an apology to the philosophers for even thinking about Consciousness as a valid subject for study.


 * Bernard J. Baar's A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness


 * and Gerald M. Edelman's A Universe of Consciousness If you like his work there are a number of past books that contain more detail about the roots of his theoretical approach.


 * there is a course on Artificial Consciousness at Artificial Consciousness that will give you some background on the underpinnings of the field.


 * As well Consciousness itself is an area of study, so you might want to look at:


 * Consciousness and Cognition (Journal) and
 * Journal of Consciousness Studies


 * There is a good article or two on Scholarpedia about machine consciousness, which is a related field, as is Cognitive Robotics.


 * I have a Forum on ResearchGATE, and a couple of threads on Network.Nature.com about my model of memory and my model of mind in the Brain Physiology, Cognition, and Consciousness Group.--Graeme E. Smith 23:26, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

--- Thank you for your reply.

I start to learn about Artificial Consiousness and I would like to work on this research field.


 * OK, first some talk page etiquette, always sign your talk page posts. If you post from multiple accounts it might be a good idea to sign with a nickname so I know that it is the same person posting, so I don't mix up multiple posters. I still might, but then it would be an accident. Have you looked at the Artificial Consciousness page? it covers a wide range of knowledge that might be useful to start with. Few people work only in Artificial Consciousness, usually they have a specialty within the larger field. For instance my present work is called Histo-Psychology and is about how the structure of nervous tissue changes the way the brain might work.


 * I work on that, because my Artificial Consciousness Model depends on a memory model, which in turn depends on the Architectonics of the Telencephalic Cortex, which includes the Cerebral Cortex. This means that as I find support for my histo-psychology work, I also find support for my Artificial Consciousness Model.


 * Pay very close attention to the philosophy of consciousness, because the problems that the philosophers have with the current understanding of consciousness, will have an impact on your work. You might for instance want to consider philpapers.org to get a background in the current philosophical discussions. I particularly like the "Explanatory Gap" thread which covers why we can't explain phenomenal information such as how it feels to be a bat, using physicalist arguments.


 * In my "The brain is representational but partly illussary" camp on Canoniser.com, (See link on the actual Forum page for details) I explain that the reason we can't is because the phenomenal philosophers are asking us to explain the illusions, not the representational system that creates them. Since the illusions are a simplification designed to streamline the control mechanisms needed to regulate the brain, explaining the representational system that detects the information on which the simplification is based, is no use for explaining the simplification. This is why I suggest we go back to before the "Brain/Mind Identity Theorem" and substitute in the Architectural Illusion Theory.--Graeme E. Smith 22:15, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * By the way, Is there any reason this wasn't posted on the actual forum page? It is after all a discussion about Artificial Consciousness, not about the forum itself.--Graeme E. Smith 22:24, 12 August 2009 (UTC)