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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: The Context of Consciousness
Introduction
- Setting a Philosophical Context
Where to Start a Project to Simulate Consciousness?
What is Reality and Consciousness?
- The Data of Reality
- Objects
- Actions
- Energy
- Relationships
The Integration of the Parts of Reality
Summary
Chapter 2: The "Biology" of Digital Life-forms
Introduction
- Philosophy, Biology, and Consciousness
Biological Life-forms
- Self-Powered Objects
- What is Unique about Life-forms?
- Survival Requires Continuous Action
- The Concept of Emergent Properties
- Life Requires Goal-directed Action
The Higher Animals and Man
- Purposeful Action
- Necessitated vs. Neutral Actions
- Volitional Action
- Volition and Concepts
- Man-made Objects
Computer Simulations and Digital Life-forms
- Layered Models
- Layered Models and Layer Substitution
- Layered Models and Context Boundaries
- Complex Causality as an Emergent Property
- Digital "Biology"
Summary
Chapter 3: A Consciousness Simulator Design
Introduction
A Design Overview of Digital Life-Forms (DLFs)
- Simulating Life and Death in a Computer
- Duplicating Levels of Complex Cause and Effect
- What Separates a Living System from the World?
- Action Control in Biological Life-forms and DLFs
- Simulating the Higher Cognitive Functions
Simulating Perceptual Consciousness
- The Five C.Events in the DLF Program
- Simulating Sensation
- The World
- Energy Transfer and Sensing
- Identity Transfer
- Simulating Perception
- The World as Objects
- Energy and Identity Transfer
- Sensation
- Perception
- Simulating Evaluation (Feelings)
- Simulating One Form of Pleasure and Pain
- Other Simulated Feelings
- Automatic Action Selection
- Memory
- Action
- The Action Driver Class Hierarchy
Simulated Perceptual Consciousness in Action
- Consciousness: The "Movie"
- The Transition to Simulating Volitional Consciousness
Summary
Chapter 4: Explaining Self-Consciousness
Introduction
The Emergence of Simulated Conceptual Consciousness
- Topping Off the Layered Model
- The Survival Value of Concepts
- How DLFs Form Concepts
- How Conceptual Level Consciousness Emerges
- Boot Strapping More Complex Choices
- Concepts of Causality
- Concepts of Consciousness
Simulating Volition and Self-Consciousness
- Axiomatic Concepts Make Self-Awareness Possible
- Axiomatic Concepts and Full Volitional Control
- Axiomatic Concepts Make Natural Language Possible
- The Spiral Theory of Learning in DLFs
Two Interesting Scientific Discoveries
- "Nano-Biology"
- Perceiving the Identity of Objects
Summary
Chapter 5: How to Simulate Consciousness
Introduction
- A Few Prerequisite Ideas
- Differences from the Current AI/AL State of the Art
- State of the Art Concepts vs. Objective Concepts
- Theoretical Differences
- The Dynamic Memory of Roger Schank
- The "Animats" of Patti Maes
- The Unintelligent Robots of Mark Tilden
- Conclusions About the Current State of the Art
- Design and Operational Differences in the Invention
Biological vs. Digital Life-Forms
- Computer Systems vs. Teleological Systems
- Robotic vs. Goal-Directed Causality
- Computer vs. Teleological Action Definition
- The Starting Point for Describing the Invention
A System Design for Simulating Conscious Life-forms
- A Computer Network Analogy
- Substituting Layers
Setting Goals in a Computer Simulation System
- What is Goal-Directed Behavior?
- Interfacing Computer Systems to Value Systems
- Goal-Directed Simulation Logic: Teleologic
- How to Write Your Own Goal-Directed Program
- How a DLF Differs from the Current State of the Art
- Creating More Complex DLFs
Adding Perceptual Consciousness to a DLF
- Sensing and Acting in a World
- Simulating Perception and the Identification of Objects
- Evaluating Objects
- Actions and Objects
- Memories
- Action in a DLF's World
- The Conscious Event Cycle
- Automatic Survival is at the Foundation of Life
- Interacting with Memory
- Recognition and Purposeful Action
- Automatic and Infallible
The Emergence of Volition in a DLF
A Simulation System Design to Calculate Concepts
- The Nature of Concepts as a Data Type
- Concept Formation as a Calculation Process
- Concepts, Memory, and Action Capacity
- How Simulated Conceptual Consciousness Emerges
The Emergence of Simulated Self-Consciousness
- The "What if" Capacity of Conceptual Information
The Emergence of Simulated Natural Language in a DLF
- The Role of Concepts in Simulating Language
- Decoding Simple Sentences
- Encoding Simple Sentences
- Beyond Simple Sentences
- The Simulation of a Fully Volitional DLF
A Summary Description of the DLF Simulation System
- Innovative Capabilities of the Invention
- The Invention is Useful
- Reduction to Practice
- Form or Product of the Invention
General Summary
Appendix A: References
Introduction
References Lists
- Primary References
- Differentiating References
Reference Citations from the Chapters
- References for Chapter 1
- References for Chapter 2
- References for Chapter 3
- References for Chapter 4
- References for Chapter 5
Index
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