Creating Conscious Machines:

The Hard Problem of consciousness highlights the explanatory gap between subjective experience and objective neuroscience. Some philosophers argue that it is unsolvable, but since all science sits upon natural laws, such laws of consciousness can be used to bridge the gap. To test such natural laws, I argue that development of artificial consciousness is crucial, where it's consciousness is tested by connecting it to our own brain and “seeing for ourselves”. Finally, creating such machines with consciousness involves reconstruction of neural wiring of the postmortem human brain via invasive connectome methods and treating it as initial state for training to reproduce neural dynamics that likely resides consciousness.

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Kagaku tetsugaku
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2025-03-30
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https://doi.org/10.4216/jpssj.57.2_13
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Embodied and Extended Cognition
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Creating Conscious Machines:

Masataka Watanabe
Kagaku tetsugaku
Embodied and Extended Cognition
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Creating Conscious Machines:

Masataka Watanabe
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Abstract

The Hard Problem of consciousness highlights the explanatory gap between subjective experience and objective neuroscience. Some philosophers argue that it is unsolvable, but since all science sits upon natural laws, such laws of consciousness can be used to bridge the gap. To test such natural laws, I argue that development of artificial consciousness is crucial, where it's consciousness is tested by connecting it to our own brain and “seeing for ourselves”. Finally, creating such machines with consciousness involves reconstruction of neural wiring of the postmortem human brain via invasive connectome methods and treating it as initial state for training to reproduce neural dynamics that likely resides consciousness.

Kagaku tetsugakuVol. 57(2)
The University of Tokyo (JP)
Openalex Percentile: Top 94%
Embodied and Extended Cognition
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