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| An '''artificial consciousness''' (AC) system is a man-made or otherwise constructed artifact capable of achieving |
An '''artificial consciousness''' (AC) system is a man-made or otherwise constructed artifact capable of achieving known objectively observable abilities of consciousness i.e. a totality of thoughts and feelings or self-awareness. | ||
| This field of study includes research aiming to create and study such systems in order to understand corresponding natural mechanisms. | This field of study includes research aiming to create and study such systems in order to understand corresponding natural mechanisms. | ||
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An artificial consciousness (AC) system is a man-made or otherwise constructed artifact capable of achieving known objectively observable abilities of consciousness i.e. a totality of thoughts and feelings or self-awareness.
This field of study includes research aiming to create and study such systems in order to understand corresponding natural mechanisms.
Professor Igor Aleksander of Imperial College, London, stated in his book Impossible Minds (IC Press 1996) that the principles for creating a conscious machine already existed but that it would take forty years to train a machine to understand language. This is a controversial statement given that artificial consciousness is thought by most observers to require Strong AI, the possibility of which is denied by some, as a prerequisite.