AI and Consciousness: Theoretical Foundations and Current Approaches
Papers from the 2007 AAAI Fall Symposium
Antonio Chella and Riccardo Manzotti, Program Cochairs
Technical Report FS-07-01. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Organizing Committee / 1
Antonio Chella, Riccardo Manzotti
Introduction: Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness / 1
Antonio Chella, Riccardo Manzotti
Invited Talks
Why Some Machines May Need Qualia and How They Can Have Them: Including a Demanding New Turing Test for Robot Philosophers / 9
Aaron Sloman
Measuring Consciousness as Integrated Information / 17
Giulio Tononi, David Balduzzi
Papers
Axiomatic Consciousness Theory for Visual Phenomenology in Artificial Intelligence / 18
Igor Aleksander, Helen Morton
Replication of the Hard Problem of Consciousness in AI and Bio-AI: An Early Conceptual Framework / 24
Nicholas Boltuc, Piotr Boltuc
A Cognitive Approach to Robot Self-Consciousness / 30
Antonio Chella, Salvatore Gaglio
Robotic Specification of the Non-Conceptual Content of Visual Experience / 36
Ron Chrisley, Joel Parthemore
A Simulated Global Neuronal Workspace with Stochastic Wiring / 43
Dustin Connor, Murray Shanahan
Exploring the Complex Interplay between AI and Consciousness / 49
Sidney K. D'Mello, Stan Franklin
What Does Consciousness Bring to CTS? / 55
Daniel Dubois, Pierre Poirier, Roger Nkambou
LIDA: A Computational Model of Global Workspace Theory and Developmental Learning / 61
Stan Franklin, Uma Ramamurthy, Sidney K. D'Mello, Lee McCauley, Aregahegn Negatu, Rodrigo Silva L., Vivek Datla
Reflections of Consciousness: The Mirror Test / 67
Pentti O A Haikonen
First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry about Feeling / 72
Stevan Harnad, Peter Scherzer
Must Machines Be Zombies? Internal Simulation as a Mechanism for Machine Consciousness / 78
Germund Hesslow, Dan-Anders Jirenhed
Sneaking Up on the Hard Problem of Consciousness / 84
Benjamin Kuipers
Machine Consciousness in CiceRobot, a Museum Guide Robot / 90
Irene Macaluso, Antonio Chella
An Externalist Process-Oriented Framework for Artificial Consciousness / 96
Riccardo Manzotti, Vincenzo Tagliasco
Testing for Machine Consciousness Using Insight Learning / 103
Catherine Marcarelli, Jeffrey L. McKinstry
Demonstrating the Benefit of Computational Consciousness / 109
Lee McCauley
Proposal for an Approach to Artificial Consciousness Based on Self-Consciousness / 116
Christophe Menant
Steps Towards Artificial Consciousness: A Robot's Knowledge of Its Own Body / 118
Domenico Parisi, Marco Mirolli
The Prince of Holmberg I / 124
Fiora Pirri
Consciousness of Crowds — The Internet as Knowledge Source of Human Conscious Behavior and Machine Self-Understanding / 128
Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
Universal Learner as an Embryo of Computational Consciousness / 130
Alexei V. Samsonovich
Self-Awareness in Real-Time Cognitive Control Architectures / 136
Ricardo Sanz, Ignacio López, Carlos Hernández
Conscious Machines: Memory, Melody and Muscular Imagination / 142
Susan A. J. Stuart