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Revision as of 18:14, 13 March 2004 by Psb777 (talk | contribs) (who are we to say?)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)An artificial consciousness (AC) system is an artefact capable of achieving verifiable aspects of consciousness.
In the Misplaced Pages article Consciousness these attributes of psychological consciousness are both listed and defined:
- spatialization
- analog I
- analog Me
- excerption
- conciliation
- narratization
As a field of study, artificial consciousness includes research aiming to create and study such systems in order to understand corresponding natural mechanisms.
Examples of artificial consciousness from literature and movies are:
- Vanamonde in Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars
- Jane in Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead
- Xenocide
- Children of the Mind
- The Investment Counselor
- HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey
- R2-D2 in Star Wars
- C-3PO in Star Wars
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. Some people deny the very possibility of strong AI; whether or not they are correct, certainly no artificial intelligence of this type has yet been created.