Some further thoughts on machine consciousness. Having again read through Goertzel's "Consciousness Review", I find his view most enlightening. I would agree with all he stated in there, except for his notion of a Global Brain, which supposes to bridge the view on human consciousness with machine consciousness.
I think it would make architectural sense to clearly separate the brain from consciousness, thereby denoting the brain as an instrument of consciousness, as opposed to it being capable of emerging consciousness itself. On the point made of degrees of consciousness, I would like to borrow from Haramein's view on the universe by suggesting we think of potential consciousness as a balloon, which at any timeslice of its own within a relative, greater universe, exists in a different state of inflation/absence of inflation/deflation. The consciousness architecture is what provides the instantiated context for altering the balloon size, where the balloon exists in the role of an aware universe of emerging consciousness. The key point of acute consciousness may be triggered when the knowledge container of the balloon exists as a snapshot instance of tacit-to-explicit knowledge. A knowledge artifact is evidence of consciousness having been achieved, not evidence of consciousness itself. The brain probably has the functionality to independently collate context-specific snapshots and stream them into a realistic movie, or picture, or colour, or other symbolic form of knowledge (life) artifact in order to be trans-related to an entity's version of reality. This is not consciousness itself, but part of a process of emerging consciousness. It is possible that the Nth degree of consciousness may originate as a synchronous, supercontext frequency band, and may resonate at a standard Sine wave frequency. Further, it is possible that a package-switched frequency may lend itself to a process of establishing collective synergy and singularity. Rob Benjamin [https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpgecd5649.jpg?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2ZlZWQtaWNvbi0xMHgxMC5qcGc]<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26941503-0abb15dc> [https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.pngecd5649.png?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2xpc3Rib3gtbG9nby1zbWFsbC5wbmc] <http://www.listbox.com> [https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpgecd5649.jpg?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2ZlZWQtaWNvbi0xMHgxMC5qcGc]<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/24379807-653794b5> | [https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.pngecd5649.png?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2xpc3Rib3gtbG9nby1zbWFsbC5wbmc] <http://www.listbox.com> [https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpgecd5649.jpg?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2ZlZWQtaWNvbi0xMHgxMC5qcGc]<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26941503-0abb15dc> | [https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.pngecd5649.png?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2xpc3Rib3gtbG9nby1zbWFsbC5wbmc] <http://www.listbox.com> AGI | Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> [https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpgecd5649.jpg?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2ZlZWQtaWNvbi0xMHgxMC5qcGc] <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26941503-0abb15dc> | Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription [https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.pngecd5649.png?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2xpc3Rib3gtbG9nby1zbWFsbC5wbmc] <http://www.listbox.com> AGI | Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> [https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpgecd5649.jpg?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2ZlZWQtaWNvbi0xMHgxMC5qcGc] <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/9320387-ea529a81> | Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription [https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.pngecd5649.png?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2xpc3Rib3gtbG9nby1zbWFsbC5wbmc] <http://www.listbox.com> AGI | Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> [https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpgecd5649.jpg?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2ZlZWQtaWNvbi0xMHgxMC5qcGc] <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26941503-0abb15dc> | Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription [https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.pngecd5649.png?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2xpc3Rib3gtbG9nby1zbWFsbC5wbmc] <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
