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| Raul.Arrabales... |
 Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:58 pm |
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CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE OF JAGI ON MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS
We'd like to call your attention to the forthcoming Special Issue of
the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, on the subject of
Machine Consciousness.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to explore topics at the
intersection of consciousness studies and Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI). Among the many important questions lying in this
intersection, are the following:
- What do contemporary theories of consciousness say about the
possibility and nature of consciousness that may be possible in
intelligent robots and software programs?
- Assuming machine consciousness is achievable, what are likely to be
the similarities and differences between machine consciousness and
human consciousness?
- What can one say about the relationship between degree of
consciousness and degree of intelligence, across the scope of
potential intelligent systems including humans, robots, and software
programs?
- How important is embodiment for the development of machine
consciousness? How should "embodiment" be defined in this context?
- What are some contemporary robotics or AGI architectures that have
the potential to lead to significant degrees of machine consciousness?
Why do they seem to have this potential?
- Is consciousness (or advanced forms of consciousness) something that
must emerge within a robotics or AGI system via the system's
interaction with its environment, rather than being explicitly
programmed in? If so, what are the conditions for its emergence?
- What implications do the social, collective aspects of consciousness
have for the possibility and nature of machine consciousness?
For this Special Issue, we are particularly (but not exclusively!)
interested in submissions from AGI researchers who have things to say
about the machine consciousness aspects of their AGI designs or
theories; or consciousness researchers who have specific ideas about
the relevance of their consciousness theories to particular AGI
architectures.
The focus and contents of this Special Issue are influenced by the
International Workshop on Machine Consciousness, which was held in
Hong Kong in June 2009. The workshop featured talks by AI and machine
consciousness researchers on their work, as well as extensive
discussion. More information about the workshop is available here:
http://novamente.net/machinecs/index.html
The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2010. We look forward to
receiving your papers ;-)
More information:
http://novamente.net/machinecs/JAGI_Special_Issue_Machine_Consciousness_CFP.pdf
Thanks,
Ben Goertzel, Novamente LLC
Raul Arrabales, University Carlos III of Madrid
Wlodek Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University
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