First paper for downloading:
Can Learning take us past Programs to
Consciousness?
by John H Andreae
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
email: j.andreae@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
This is the text of a previously unpublished,
invited address delivered at the Fifth Biannual Conference
on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems,
ANNES’2001, held at the University of Otago, Dunedin, N.Z.
22-24 November 2001. A one page summary of the address
appeared in the Proceedings of the Conference.
Keywords: Consciousness, Learning, Robot.
Domains: Artificial intelligence, Cognition.
Abstract: A human-like, intelligent, conscious
robot is the ultimate goal for many researchers and has
been mine for 40 years. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Connectionism seem to be getting nowhere, while
Neuroscience forges ahead with consciousness in its sights.
Here, I argue (again!) that AI and Connectionism must
abandon top-level programs and encodingism to get back into
the race for consciousness.
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Second paper for downloading:
A Microworld for Robot Awareness
by John H Andreae
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
email: j.andreae@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
Keywords: Robot, Consciousness, Microworld.
Abstract:The Squash-Pop microworld is designed for
experiments in robot awareness. Robot behaviour in this
microworld is analysed in terms of various conditions for
consciousness suggested by philosophers, psychologists and
neuroscientists. It is found that robot design demands more
precise conditions than these.
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