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Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org Apr 17, 2018 12 facts
claimScholars working in robot consciousness suggest that an intermediate level of processing—including sensory-motor patterns, information, cognition, and global workspace—serves as a possible explanation for consciousness.
referenceThe article 'Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate Level Fallacy' identifies the following keywords: robot consciousness, machine consciousness, artificial consciousness, synthetic phenomenology, and robot self-awareness.
referencePopular approaches in robot consciousness research, such as those by Holland (2004), Bongard et al. (2006), and Shanahan (2006, 2010), utilize the notion of embodiment to focus on robot bodies and the interaction between an agent and its environment.
claimGood Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness (GOFAC) is a set of premises in robot consciousness research that suggests a physical world in which consciousness appears as a result of a specific intermediate level.
referenceChella and Manzotti (2009) discussed problems in assessing robot consciousness, including the role of the body, the necessity for the robot to be 'situated' in an environment, the cognitive capabilities of the robot, and the functions of emotions.
claimThe literature on robot consciousness generally fails to address phenomenal consciousness because researchers often focus on concrete problems within existing conceptual frameworks while deferring the core issue of consciousness to future breakthroughs.
claimThe study of robot consciousness should shift focus from internal processes and structures to the analysis of the ontogenetic and epigenetic relations that a body develops and maintains with the external world during its life.
claimRobot consciousness is a research field that benefits from the contributions of scholars from neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and robotics.
perspectiveResearchers generally believe that understanding biological consciousness may help to build better robots, and conversely, that research on robot consciousness may help in understanding biological consciousness.
referenceThe LIDA architecture, based on the global workspace model of consciousness, is a notable example of an architecture developed for machine and robot consciousness.
claimStudies on robot consciousness may necessitate a review of the fundamental definition of the concept of a person.
claimRobot consciousness research has not yet succeeded in making progress on the issue of phenomenal experience, and no one has claimed that an artifact has experienced anything close to a feeling.