"Machine" consciousness and "artificial" thought: an operational architectonics model guided approach.
Instead of using low-level neurophysiology mimicking and exploratory programming methods commonly used in the machine consciousness field, the hierarchical operational architectonics (OA) framework of brain and mind functioning proposes an alternative conceptual-theoretical framework as a new direction in the area of model-driven machine (robot) consciousness engineering. The unified brain-mind theoretical OA model explicitly captures (though in an informal way) the basic essence of brain functional architecture, which indeed constitutes a theory of consciousness. The OA describes the neurophysiological basis of the phenomenal level of brain organization. In this context the problem of producing man-made "machine" consciousness and "artificial" thought is a matter of duplicating all levels of the operational architectonics hierarchy (with its inherent rules and mechanisms) found in the brain electromagnetic field. We hope that the conceptual-theoretical framework described in this paper will stimulate the interest of mathematicians and/or computer scientists to abstract and formalize principles of hierarchy of brain operations which are the building blocks for phenomenal consciousness and thought.
BM-Science, Brain and Mind Technologies Research Centre, Espoo, Finland. andrew.fingelkurts@bm-science.com
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Alexander A
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Carlos F H
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Neves
D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003201:Computers; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D012371:Robotics; D056345:Theory of Mind; D013850:Thinking / Q000502:physiology*