Re: AC articles

[tkorrovi]

These are links from first 200 results of Google search for "artificial consciousness"
what are about the topic, with double links deleted. This is a very raw list, but
it should give some kind of overview at least on the most active research.


Proposed mechanisms for AC implemented by computer program: absolutely dynamic systems
By Tarvo Korrovits
Unrestrictedness
www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/database/2/

Artificial Consciousness
By Daniel Pouzzner, System Architect
Integration
www.mega.nu:8080/ai.html

On the possibility of "artificial consciousness"
By Thomas Gramstad
Complexity, Turing test Black Box fallacy
folk.uio.no/thomas/po/artificial-consciousness.html

Intersubjective Transparency and Artificial Consciousness
Behavioral Criterion, Recursive Believer, intersubjectivity
By William A. Adams, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, Chapman University College
members.bainbridge.net/~bill.adams/artificial.htm

Artificial Consciousness
By Vincenzo Tagliasco and Riccardo Manzotti. University of Genoa
Causal relations
manzotti.lira.dist.unige.it/On%20Line%20Papers/artificial%20consciousness.pdf

Artificial Consciousness - Artificial Art
By Mike King, London Guildhall University
Chaos theory, quantum indeterminacy, wholeness, creativity, imagination
web.ukonline.co.uk/mr.king/writings/earts/artcon.html

Would a Digital Brain Have a Mind?
By Neville Holmes
Mind as Process
flatrock.org.nz/topics/info_and_tech/artificial_consciousness.htm

Can a Machine Ever Become Self-aware?
By Giorgio Buttazzo, professor of computer engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy
feanor.sssup.it/~giorgio/movies/ac-eng.html

Artificial Consciousness, the search for what makes us human
By WA de Landgraaf, Vrije University, Holland
Global Workspace theory, functionalism, physicalism, neural synchrony
am.xs4all.nl/docs/faai/Artificial_Consciousness-24042004-abbreviated.pdf

Artificial Consciousness: Neural Networks Revised
By Michal Zalewski
Short-term memory
lcamtuf.coredump.cx/NNnight/

Artificial Consciousness as a Metaphor for Human Consciousness
By Alexei Samsonovich and Lynn Nadel, University of Arizona
Cognitive map, episodic memory, dynamism, virtual graph, ability to create concepts
www.krasnow.gmu.edu/alexei/consciousness/

Towards A Prime Directive For Artificial Consciousness, "Zen" in the art of Spiritual Machine
By Neil Freer
Conscious Evolution, constant change
www.a-i.com/data/44-DIRECTIVE.pdf

X-Rays, Robots and Artificial Consciousness
By Sara Breuer
Quantum computer
wcit.webcrayon.com/printer.asp?id=211

Artificial Consciousness -- A ''live'' issue?
By Steve Torrance, Sussex University
www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/ECAP/ABS-torrancetalk.html

Kant's transcendental psychology and artificial intelligence, artificial life and consciousness
By Susan Stuart, University of Glasgow
Movement and response
www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/Personnel/susan/research.html

Consciousness Based on Wireless?
By Johnjoe McFadden, University of Surrey, Great Britain
Consciousness as electromagnetic field
www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52674,00.html

Money Making Ventures
By Igor Aleksander, London Imperial College
Sensations, iconic learning
www.ic.ac.uk/alumni/publications/archive/matters/s97/fuss.htm

Eye of the Storm - Panel Discussion, Part 1
By Susan Greenfield, Igor Aleksander, Stuart Hameroff and Kevin Warwick
Computational approach, cytoskeleton, is neural synopsis a binary switch
www.artscat.demon.co.uk/htm/eots/cons1.htm

Eye of the Storm - Panel Discussion, Part 2
By Stelarc, Susan Greenfield, Roger Penrose and Kevin Warwick
Human, animal and machine awareness, non-computability
www.artscat.demon.co.uk/htm/eots/cons2.htm

Models of Consciousness Workshop, The Context for the Workshop
By Ricardo Sanz, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Aaron Sloman, University of Birmingham and
Ron Chrisley, University of Sussex
Interdisciplinarity
aslab.disam.etsii.upm.es/public/events/moc/objectives.htm

The Straight Dope: What is consciousness?
By Cecil Adams
Turing, Searle
www.straightdope.com/classics/a990611.html

The Blind Spot of Artificial Intelligence
By Eberhard von Goldammer
Self referential process, theory of subjectivity
www.vordenker.de/gunther_web/footnote.htm

Mysterialism
By Jeremy S. Gluck
Emergent intelligence
www.goldenlight.org/printtopic/2

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Panel Discussion
By Stuart Hameroff, David Calverley and Wendell Wallach
www.transhumanism.org/tv/2003usa/panelaiethics.htm

Consciousness Evolving
Review by Paul Gatto, UC San Diego
Evolution, creativity, sensations, adaptation
mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1581

Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds
By Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University
Materialism, learning, massively parallel processing, natural language processing
ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/concrobt.htm

Computer Consciousness (Computerworld, November 2001)
By Stephen M. Younger
Supercomputers
www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,65279,00.html

Consciousness: a Requirement for Understanding Natural Language
By Gérard Sabah
Reflectivity, memory, relation between processes, attention, learning
marges.linguistiques.free.fr/bdd_ml/archives_pres/doc0016presentation.htm

"Quantum vitalism" - Are consciousness and the "living state" fundamental quantum processes?
By Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona
Emergent properties, complex dynamics, self-organization, adaptive behavior, evolution, perception, feelings, experience
hypernews.ngdc.noaa.gov/ISSS/get/WILL/18/10.html?inline=-1&nogifs

Will fact match fiction as scientists start work on thinking robot? (Guardian Unlimited)
By Igor Aleksander, London Imperial College, and Owen Holland, University of Essex
Building up internal models of self and the environment, plaiining its actions, adapt to its environment, evaluation
of modelled outcomes, increasingly complex environments, prediction, reacting dynamically to its environment,
sense of place, imagination, directed attention, planning, decision/emotion
www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1028776,00.html

Adaptive Systems with dynamic agents architecture: an approach of artificial consciousness, Ongoing research
By Laboratory of Computer Sciences, Paris
www.lip6.fr/en/production/publications-rapport-fiche.php?RECORD_KEY(rapports)=id&id(rapports)=43

Ground-breaking research to develop 'conscious' robot, University of Essex news release
By Owen Holland, University of Essex
Complex environment, imagination
www.essex.ac.uk/news/2003/nr20030822.htm

Young Turk to Grand Master
By Brian Aldiss
Roger Penrose, mind/body creation
www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/08/Aldiss.html

Creating Machine Consciousness, Panel D Submission
By UK Computing Research Committee
www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/Grand_Challenges/paneld/d11.pdf

We're living in a Matrix ... possibly (vnunet.com news)
By Nick Bostrom, Yale University
Civilisation will one day simulate consciousness - if it hasn't already
www.vnunet.com/News/1134567

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Natural Language Understanding, Learning and Consciousness ...
By Ge'rard Sabah Language and Cognition Group
Learning, language, correlations, categorisation, analogy, flexibility, reflective systems, dynamic control,
sketchboard, attention, correlation, connection between processes, perception, generalisation,
analogical discovery, symbols, global workspace, not all components modular
www.limsi.fr/Individu/gs/BibliographieEndNote/Fichiers.ps/EARLI.ps
216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:776vLeQzV84J:www.limsi.fr/Individu/gs/BibliographieEndNote/Fichiers.ps/EARLI.ps+Natural+Language+Understanding,+Learning+and+Consciousness+&hl=en

Abstracts, Informatica journal
Theory of teaching, Dynamic Conceptual Mappings, impressions, Emotional-Imaginative Teaching,
natural selection, dynamical systems theory, activity patterns, evolutionary explanation, processes,
generation and verification of hypotheses, anticipation, network dynamics, associative generation,
reflection, senses, creation-annihilation dynamics, associative neural networks, quantum systems,
brainwaves, quantum holography, human brain mapping
ai.ijs.si/informatica/vols/vol21_3_97abs.html

"Conscious" Robot in the Works (BetterHumans news)
By Owen Holland, University of Essex
Visual experience, imagine actions before choosing one, human-like visual systems
www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-08-25-4

Artificial Insectelligence
By Keri-Lee Page, University of Cambridge
Neural networks, decentralised control systems, reacting to obstacles
www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/matheson/keri/AI.html

Creating Artificial Life in Virtual Reality
By Nadia Magnenant Thalmann, University of Genova, and Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Virtual humans, behaviour, autonomy, adaptation, perception, memory, emotion, unpredictability, immersion
ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/papers.dir/0.Introduction1.pdf

Statements on Consciousness and Philosophy
By Robert Pepperell
Emergent not top down, no finite division between environment body and brain,
www.stem-arts.com/Posthum/conc.htm

Spare parts for the brain (from The Economist)
Thinking, reasoning, remembering, seeing, neural interfaces
www.economist.com/science/tq/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1841069

Professor Igor Aleksander
Artificial Visual Awareness, neural pattern recognition, neural vision machine, visuo-verbal system in humans,
effect of anaesthetics on awareness
www.iac03.com/biogs/attendees/02_dr_i_aleksander.html

Machines with minds of their own
By Igor Aleksander, London Imperial College
The principles for creating a conscious machine already exist, emotions, neurally retrievable memories,
perceived sensations, Iconic Transfer, learning, planning, wanting, reaction, attention,
increase our appreciation of the human mind
www.imperial.ac.uk/P1855.htm

Silicon Brains and Computational Neuroengineering
By David Goldberg, Brown University
Silicon retinas and cochleas, neural networks, investigate mechanisms of learning, short-term memory,
attention
www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/science/dgneuro/present/brains.html

2001: Recreating the Brain
By Eliza Windsor
Personality, emotions, experience of self, mimic conscious human brain function, reason, rational decisions,
emotional quotients
serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper3/Windsor3.html

A semiotic perspective on the development of (artificial) consciousness.
By Patrick J. Coppock, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Understanding, enlightement, causality, quality, time, space, introspection, intuition, thinking, signs, meaning,
knowledge, belief
coppock-violi.com/web/Consciousness/ConsciousnessL.html

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
By Gilbert Harman
Dualism, moral, peoples as models for AI
www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall03/cs302/readings/harman.pdf

"Consciousness", Panel Discussion
By John Lisman, Jerry Samet and Chaelon Myme, Brandeis University
Awareness of our actions, neuroscience
www.bio.brandeis.edu/bauer/2001/panel_discussion.html

Engineering consciousness
By Ron Chrisley, University of Sussex
Autonomy, adaptivity, learning, emotion, affect, responsibility, intelligence, authenticity,
integrating information, sensation, perception, action, simulation, imagination, planning,
representation of its own states, attention, belief, self, transparency, learning of dynamics,
heterophenomenology, split of attention signal, action selection, timing management, accessibility,
meaning generation, control, affect, motivation, information processing architecture, uniqueness,
seriality, pragmatics, ethics, behaviour, functional process
www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/moc/chrisley-moc-report.pdf

Uncovering analogy
By Paul Bloom, Yale University
Analogy, comparison, structural alignment, mappings, correspondencies, analogical mapping,
parallel structures, mental simulation, problem solving, decision making, Searle
love.psy.utexas.edu/~love/papers/love_2001.pdf

Neural Network Simulators
By NEuroNet - Software
Neural Networks software
www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/neuronet/software/software.html

Consciousness - Computing the uncomputable
By T. Triffet and H.S. Green, University of Adelaide
Volition, acquisition and creation of information, quantal Turing machine
www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/mathphysics/abstracts/hsg-9.html

Mind And Machine
Searle
www.midtermpapers.com/view.php/Psychology/Mind_And_Machin.htm

Towards Thinking Machines
By Pentti O. A. Haikonen, Nokia Research Center
Pattern and speech recognition, association, evocation of chains of associations, thinking, thinking is not
execution of sequences of pre-programmed commands, perception, attention, learning, reasoning, language,
inner speech, inner imagery, feelings, sensations, highly parallel and associative information processing
architectures, gadgets that really help us to use them
www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,53717,00.html


Schedules and links
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Cognition and Consciousness, Schedule
www.sics.se/~kia/consciousness.html

Consciousness Club, Schedule
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events/cclub.html

Philosophy and Consciousness, Schedule
www.bvinst.edu/gradstudies/Philosophy%20new%20ZG511.htm

Toward A Science of Consciousness 2001, Schedule
www.conferencerecording.com/newevents/tsc21.htm

Cutting edge practice of artificial life, artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnology, Schedule
www.dlux.org.au/fs00/sympbook.htm

Data and General Considerations, Schedule
aslab.disam.etsii.upm.es/public/events/moc/program.htm

Minds, Brains & Science, Links
www.geocities.com/fastiland/MindsBrainsScience.html

Advanced Studies in Consciousness & Science, Curriculum
www.bvinst.edu/gradstudies/curriculum.htm