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How to Simulate Consciousness Using a Computer System

 

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Symbols

(X,Y) coordinates 1

"Animats" 1

"billiard ball" 1

"billiard ball" causality 1, 2, 3, 4

"Consciousness is Identification." 1

"Existence is Identity." 1

"Identity -->> Action" sequence 1

"mind-body" dichotomy 1

"some but any" principle 1

"Volition" (free will) 1

"What if" Capacity 1

A

abstract concepts 1, 2, 3

abstract form 1

Act 1

Action 1, 2

action 1

action capacities 1, 2

action capacity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Action Control 1

action drivers 1

action efficiency 1

Action in a DLF's World 1

Action Method 1

Action method 1

Action Methods 1

action potential 1

action pre-definition 1

action repertoire 1

Action Selection 1, 2

action selection method 1, 2

Actions 1

Actions and Objects 1

Active DLF/Current Status 1

Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) 1, 2

agent 1

AI 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

AI research 1

AI researchers 1

AI systems 1

AI/AL State of the Art 1

AL 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 1

animate 1

animation platform 1

anti-survival 1

application program 1

application programs 1

arbitrary 1

arbitrary (as in non-objective) 1

arbitrary constructs 1

Artificial Intelligence 1

Artificial Intelligence (AI) 1, 2, 3

Artificial Life 1

artificial life 1

Artificial Life (AL) 1, 2, 3

Artificial life programs 1

artificial life-form 1

ATP 1, 2

ATP synthesis 1, 2

attribute measurements 1

Automatic action 1

automatic action 1

Automatic Action Selection 1

Automatic and Infallible 1

automatic biological action 1

automatic comparison processing 1

automatic goal-directed behavior 1

automatic perceptual consciousness 1

automatic self-regulation 1

automatic subconscious integration 1

Automatic Survival 1

automatic, teleological action selection strategies 1

automatons 1

axiomatic concept "existence" 1

Axiomatic concepts 1

axiomatic concepts 1, 2, 3

Axiomatic Concepts as cause of Self-Awareness 1

B

billiard ball causality 1

biochemical mechanistic causality 1

biological life 1

Biological vs. Digital Life-Forms 1

bootstraps 1

C

C.Event 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

C.Event cycle 1, 2

C.Events 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

C.Events per unit time 1

calculate a concept 1

calculate an identity 1

calculate the attributes of the objects 1

calculates their properties and values 1

Calculating object attributes 1

calculation chains linking words to reality 1

calculation chains of concepts 1

calculation that the percepts 1

calculations of the attribute lists 1

category of measurement 1

causal and logical form 1

causal chain 1, 2, 3, 4

causal chain of calculations 1

causal context 1

causal context boundary 1

causal efficacy 1, 2

causal equivalence 1

causal loop 1

causal potential 1

causal process 1

causal sequencing 1

causality 1, 2

causality as identity-action 1

causality simulators 1

causality substitution 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

causally equivalent 1

causally necessitated 1

causally substituted 1

Cause an Action local 1

Cause and effect 1

causes and effects 1

CCD 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

cellular processes 1

chain of causality 1

chains of calculated, measurement based relationships 1

Chains of calculations 1

choices as caused 1

closed system 1, 2

Cognitive Functions 1

cognitive self-regulation 1

commensurable attributes 1

complex causality 1, 2, 3

complex causality and consciousness as a non-mystical process 1

Complex Causality as an Emergent Property 1

complex causality of life-forms 1

Complex DLFs 1

components of reality 1

computer agent 1

Computer agents 1

computer databases 1

computer hardware 1, 2

Computer Network Analogy 1

computer programming 1

computer simulation system 1

computer simulations 1

computer system as an animation platform 1

Computer systems 1

Computer systems as action platforms 1

Computer Systems vs. Teleological Systems 1

Computer vs. Teleological Action Definition 1

Conceive method 1

concept 1

concept (as defined by Ayn Rand) 1

concept "existence" 1

concept "nothing" or "non-existence" 1

concept "self" 1

concept defined 1

concept formation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Concept Formation as a Calculation Process 1

concept formation methods 1

concept formation process 1, 2

Concepts 1, 2

concepts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

concepts as a calculated datatype 1

Concepts as a Data Type 1

concepts as a means of making the invisible visible 1

Concepts as abstractions based on observed, measurable differences and similarities 1

Concepts as an open-ended data structures 1

Concepts as calculated 1

concepts as calculated from reality upward 1

concepts of "place" and "world" 1

Concepts of Causality 1

Concepts of Consciousness 1

concepts, as epistemological structures 1

conceptual awareness 1

conceptual calculation chain 1

conceptual calculation chains 1

conceptual chains 1, 2, 3

Conceptual Common Denominator (CCD) 1

Conceptual consciousness 1, 2

conceptual consciousness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

conceptual consciousness as an active and fallible process 1

conceptual consciousness simulator 1

conceptual hierarchy 1, 2, 3

conceptual identification 1

Conceptual knowledge 1

conceptual level of consciousness 1

conceptual memory 1

conceptual processes 1

conceptual recognition 1

Conceptual recognition methods 1

conceptual simulation system 1

conceptual symbols 1, 2

Conceptualize class 1

conceptualizing sentence objects 1

conditional 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

conditional nature of biological life 1

conditional object 1

conditional objects 1, 2

conditional processes 1

conditional, teleological relationship 1

Conditionality causes evolution 1

Conscious Event Cycle 1

conscious identification of reality 1

conscious mental processes 1

conscious processes 1

Consciousness 1, 2, 3

The "Movie" 1

consciousness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Consciousness as a limited process 1

consciousness as a limited, quantify-able, causal process 1

consciousness as a relational process 1

Consciousness as a relationship 1

Consciousness as an action 1

consciousness as an active process 1

consciousness as causally connected to the world 1

consciousness as mystical or transparent 1

consciousness simulation 1

consciousness simulation system 1

consciousness simulator 1

consciousness transforms the identity 1

conserving the identity information 1

content of consciousness 1, 2, 3

content-oriented data compression 1, 2

Context Boundaries 1

creativity 1

criteria for action selection 1

cross-classifications 1, 2

current C.Event 1

cybernetics 1

cybernetics (negative feedback control systems) 1

cycle of repeated perceptual events 1

D

Data of Reality 1

DC 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

decoding and encoding of natural language 1

Decoding Simple Sentences 1

Default Action Controller 1

define their own future identities 1

definitions 1

design architecture for life-form and consciousness simulation 1

desire attributes 1

desktop computer 1, 2

detector 1

determinism 1

differentiation and integration 1

Digital "Biology" 1

digital camera 1

Digital Life-form (DLF) Program 1

Digital life-form Simulation Program 1

Digital Life-forms 1

Digital life-forms 1

Distinguishing Characteristic(s) (DC) 1

disvalue 1

disvalues 1

DLF 1, 2, 3, 4

DLF Mind 1, 2, 3

DLF Mind instance 1

DLF Mind/Feeling Calc 1

DLF physical functions 1

DLF Program 1, 2, 3, 4

DLF program 1, 2, 3, 4

DLF simulation software 1

DLF simulation system 1, 2

DLF system design 1

DLF's identity 1

DLF's perception software 1

DLF's world 1

DLFs 1, 2

DLFs' actions 1

DNA 1, 2

DNA processes 1

E

efficiency of awareness 1

electro-chemical and physical process 1

electro-chemical processes 1

Emergence of Conceptual Consciousness 1

Emergence of Natural Language 1

Emergence of Simulated Self-Consciousness 1

emergence of simulated self-consciousness 1

emergence of the conceptual level of consciousness 1

Emergence of Volition 1

Emergent Properties 1

Encoding Simple Sentences 1

Energy 1

Energy Packets 1, 2, 3

Energy Packets (EPs) 1, 2

Energy Transfer and Sensing 1

Energy Usage local 1

English 1

entity 1

entrance to the conceptual level 1

epistemological 1, 2

epistemology 1

EPs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Evaluate 1

Evaluating Objects 1

Evaluation 1

evaluation system 1

evolution 1, 2

Existence 1, 2, 3

existence 1, 2

Existence Window 1

Existence window 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

F

figure-ground images 1

filing and organizing percepts 1

filing system 1, 2

Filing systems 1

Find and Watch methods 1

first cause 1, 2, 3, 4

First causes 1

first causes 1

first level concepts 1, 2, 3, 4

first level of consciousness 1

flow chart 1

flowchart 1, 2, 3, 4

form of causality 1

Form or Product of the Invention 1

Free will 1

Free will as caused 1

free-will 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

full volitional control 1, 2

functionally equivalent 1, 2

G

Genetic algorithms 1

genetic algorithms 1, 2

genetically determined 1

Genetics 1

goal of survival 1

goal-action cycle 1

goal-causation 1

goal-directed 1

Goal-directed Action 1

goal-directed action 1

Goal-directed behavior 1, 2

goal-directed behavior 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

goal-directed causality 1

Goal-directed causality as cyclical 1

goal-directed cause and effect 1

goal-directed processes 1

Goal-Directed Simulation Logic 1

goal-directedness 1, 2

grammar 1, 2, 3

grammatical concepts 1

grammatical specifications 1

H

happiness value 1

hardware 1, 2, 3, 4

hierarchy and context 1

How Conceptual Consciousness Emerges 1

How DLFs Form Concepts 1

human consciousness 1

human teacher 1

I

Idealism 1

Idealists 1

identities 1

identities of objects 1

identity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

identity conserved 1

Identity determines action capacity 1

identity information 1

identity is conserved 1

identity links 1

identity of consciousness 1

identity of objects 1

identity of reality 1

Identity Transfer 1

imagination 1, 2

imagine 1

imitation of biological consciousness 1

implicit 1

implicit concept 1

implicit concepts 1

implicit measurements 1

Implicit Strategy Comparator 1

Implicit Strategy Processor, cases 1

incommensurable identities 1

independent decision making 1

Information IS identity in conscious form 1

Ingest Class 1

instincts 1, 2

instinctual behaviors 1

integrating simulated sensations 1

Interacting with Memory 1

interface 1, 2, 3, 4

interface layer 1

Interfacing Computer Systems to Value Systems 1

internal locus of control 1

internally powered and controlled causation 1

intrinsic 1, 2

Intrinsic concepts 1

intrinsicism 1

introspect 1, 2

Introspect Class 1

introspectable 1

intuition 1

isolate and focus 1

J

Java programming environment 1

Java 1

L

language as a tool of concepts and thinking 1

Layer Substitution 1

layer substitution 1

layered model 1, 2

Layered Model of Complex Causality 1

Layered Models 1

layers of causes 1

level of awareness 1

levels of abstraction 1

life status 1

life-form simulator 1

Life-forms 1

Lifelike Autonomous Agents 1

Light Interaction 1

logical form 1

Look class 1

loop 1, 2, 3, 4

M

man-made 1

Man-made Objects 1

manual (non-automatic) behavior 1

Materialism 1

materialism 1

Materialistic idea 1

mathematical connection 1

measurement range 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

measurement value 1

measurement values 1

mechanistic automaton 1

mechanistic autonomous agents 1

mechanistic basis 1

mechanistic causal processes 1

Mechanistic causality 1

mechanistic causality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

mechanistic causation 1

mechanistic cause and effect 1

mechanistic computer causality 1

mechanistic layers 1

mechanistic processes 1

mechanistic programming 1

mechanistic simulation 1

mechanistic systems 1

memories 1

Memory 1, 2, 3

Memory method 1

memory record 1

metaphysical 1, 2, 3, 4

metaphysical primary 1

methods of a C.Event 1

mind-body dichotomy 1

mysticism 1

N

narrowing the measurement range 1

natural human languages 1

Natural Language 1

Natural language 1, 2, 3

natural language 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

natural language word 1

natural language words 1

negative-feedback, stasis-seeking process 1

neural networks 1

neuro-chemical energy 1

neuro-physiological processes 1, 2

neutral (non-essential for survival) 1

neutral behaviors 1

No-Act method 1

Non-existence 1

non-existence 1

Non-living and living 1

non-living objects 1

O

object 1

objective 1

Objective concepts 1

Objective conceptual knowledge 1

objective method 1, 2

objective, conceptual knowledge 1

Objectivism 1, 2

Objectivist Epistemology 1

Objectivist epistemology 1

Objectivist ideas 1

Objectivist method 1

Objectivist theory 1

object-oriented computer programming environment 1

Object-Oriented Prog. Environment 1

object-oriented programmer 1

object-oriented programming 1, 2

object-oriented programming environmen 1

object-oriented programming environment 1, 2, 3

object-oriented programming inheritance 1

Objects 1

objects' identities as properties and values 1

observation of objects 1

ontogenetic 1, 2, 3

Ontogenetic behaviors 1

open-ended categories 1

open-ended quality of concepts 1

operating system 1, 2

optional action 1, 2

optional action capacity 1

Optional actions 1

optional actions 1, 2, 3

Optional actions are actions 1

optional behavior 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

optional behaviors 1, 2, 3, 4

Optional Mental Actions 1

optional physical action 1

optional, goal-directed actions 1

ordinary computer files 1

oriented programming environment 1

P

parse 1

patent application 1

Perceive 1

Perceive objects 1

percept data type 1

Percept formation event 1

percept method 1

Perception 1, 2

perception 1, 2

percepts 1, 2

Percepts as a list 1

percepts as time dependent 1

perceptual comparison 1

Perceptual Consciousness 1

Perceptual consciousness 1, 2, 3

perceptual consciousness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

perceptual consciousness as a passive, automatic, and infallible process 1

perceptual identities 1

perceptual information 1

perceptual system 1

Philosophical Context 1

Philosophy, Biology, and Consciousness 1

physical 1

Physical laws and "digital" laws 1

physical molecular processes 1

pixels 1, 2, 3

Pleasure & Pain 1

Pleasure/Pain method 1

pleasure/pain system 1, 2

pleasure/pain systems 1

plenum 1

positive, value-seeking process 1

preconceptual 1

prerequisites 1

Primacy of Consciousness, fallacy of 1

processing units 1, 2, 3

program code 1

program conditionals 1

programming its own identity 1

Prograph 1

properties 1

properties and measurement values 1, 2, 3

properties and values 1

property and value list 1

pro-survival 1

protein 1

proto-language 1

prototype DLF 1

psychology 1

Purposeful Action 1

Purposeful action 1

R

range of measurements 1

range of values 1

range of values unique to a group 1

rational self-consciousness 1, 2, 3, 4

Reality 1, 2

reality 1

reality (object) manipulation 1

reality is transformed 1

reality simulator 1

reality simulators 1

reality-based concepts 1

recapitulate evolution 1

Recognition 1

recursive changes to identity 1

recursively modify conscious behavior 1

reduce the units of information 1

Reduction to Practice 1

relational concept 1, 2, 3

relationship to reality 1

Relationships 1

relationships as calculated ranges of measurements 1

repetoire of automatic actions 1

reproduction 1

reversal of the process of simulated consciousness 1

reverse engineer 1

RNA 1

Robotic vs. Goal-Directed Causality 1

robotics researchers 1

Robots 1, 2

robots 1

S

Say class 1

Say methods 1

scientific method 1

selected by choice 1

self 1

self as a virtual entity 1

self-awareness 1, 2

self-caused 1

self-conscious 1

Self-Consciousness 1

Self-consciousness 1

self-consciousness 1, 2, 3, 4

self-defining 1, 2, 3

self-defining system 1

self-evident axiom 1

self-evident facts 1

self-generate 1

self-generated 1, 2, 3

self-generated, self-sustaining action 1

self-generating 1

self-generation 1

self-goal-directed object 1

Self-Powered Objects 1

self-programming 1, 2

self-regulating 1, 2

self-regulation 1, 2

self-sustaining 1, 2

Sensation 1

sensations 1, 2, 3

sensing event 1

sensory input 1

sensory modalities 1

sentence as a complete thought 1

sentence object 1

sentence objects 1

shared properties 1

Short Term Memory (STM) 1, 2

similar objects as units 1

similarities and differences between objects 1

similarities in measurements 1

simulate consciousness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

simulated act of will 1

simulated concept 1

Simulated concepts 1

Simulated concepts as timelessness 1

simulated consciousness 1, 2

simulated desires 1

simulated effort 1

simulated environment 1

simulated feeling 1

simulated feelings 1, 2

simulated happiness 1, 2

simulated hunger 1

simulated life 1

simulated life-form 1

simulated life-forms 1

Simulated Natural Language 1

simulated natural language 1

simulated objects' identities 1

simulated perception 1

Simulated percepts 1

simulated percepts 1

simulated perceptual consciousness 1, 2

simulated reality 1

simulated sensations 1

simulated sensors 1

simulated values 1

simulated volition 1, 2

simulated world 1

simulating consciousness 1

Simulating Evaluation (Feelings) 1

Simulating hunger 1

Simulating Life and Death 1

Simulating Perception 1

Simulating Sensation 1

simulation of consciousness 1

Simulations 1

software 1, 2, 3

software agents 1

spacial relationships 1

Spiral Theory of Learning 1

standard of value 1

State of the Art Concepts vs. Objective Concepts 1

sub-classifications 1, 2

subconscious 1, 2, 3, 4

subconsciously 1

subjective 1

Subjective concepts 1

subjectivism 1

subject-verb-object 1

Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) encoding 1

subsystem layer 1, 2, 3

subsystem layers 1, 2

survival advantage 1, 2

survival advantages of concepts 1

survival behaviors 1

survival strategies 1

survival strategy 1

survival tools 1

survival value 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Survival Value of Concepts 1

symbol manipulation 1

symbolic form 1

symbolic representation of reality 1

symbolic representations 1

Symbols 1

symbols 1

T

teleological 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

teleological actions 1

teleological agent 1, 2

teleological agents 1, 2

teleological behaviors 1

teleological causal process 1

teleological causality 1, 2, 3, 4

teleological design 1

teleological entity 1

teleological layer 1

teleological process 1

teleological processes 1, 2

teleological program 1

teleological simulation 1

teleological simulation system 1

teleological software 1

teleological systems 1, 2

teleologically necessitated 1

teleologically optional 1

teleology 1, 2

tests for a life-form 1

thermostat 1

thought 1

three ways of forming concepts 1

timelessness of concepts 1

trace the calculation chains 1

transduced 1

transduction of the energy 1

transform by calculation 1

transformations 1

Transition to Volitional Consciousness 1

two forms of causality 1

U

ultimate genera 1, 2

unbroken chain of the identity information 1

unconscious machines 1

Unintelligent Robots 1

unit economy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

unit processing economy 1

units 1, 2

units to process 1

V

validity of sense perception 1

valuable actions 1

value 1

value as in number 1

value/disvalue pair 1

values 1

value-significance 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

vegetative functions 1

virtual entities 1

virtual form 1, 2

virtual life-forms 1

virtual mind 1

virtual object 1, 2

virtual reality 1

virtual world 1

Volition 1

volition 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Volition (free-will) 1

Volition and Concepts 1

Volition as an action capacity 1

volition as caused by previous instances of its own use 1

Volitional (free will) action 1

volitional behavior 1, 2

volitional control 1, 2, 3

volitionally self-defining 1

W

word 1

word as a symbol 1

Words 1

words connect via their chains of calculations 1

World as Objects 1

X

X,Y 1

X,Y coordinate lists 1

X,Y coordinate pairs 1, 2, 3

X,Y coordinate systems 1

X,Y coordinates 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

 

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