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Drinking from the firehose of experience

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Drinking from the firehose of experience
The problem of consciousness has captured the imagination of philosophers, neuroscientists, and the general public, but has received little attention within AI. However, concepts from robotics and computer vision hold great promise to account for the major aspects of the phenomenon of consciousness, including philosophically problematical aspects such as the vividness of qualia, the first-person character of conscious experience, and the property of intentionality. This paper presents and evaluates such an account against eleven features of consciousness "that any philosophical-scientific theory should hope to explain", according to the philosopher and prominent AI critic John Searle. The Problem of Consciousness Artificial Intelligence is the use of computational concepts to model the phenomena of mind. Consciousness is one of the most central and conspicuous aspects of mind. In spite of this, AI researchers have mostly avoided the problem of consciousness in favor of model...
Benjamin Kuipers
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where ARTMED
Authors Benjamin Kuipers
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