I completed the first draft of a technical paper on consciousness the
other day. It is intended for the AGI-09 conference, and it can be
found at:
http://susaro.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/draft_consciousness_rpwl.pdf
The title is "Consciousness in Human and Machine: A Theory and Some
Falsifiable Predictions", and it does solve the problem, believe it or not.
But I have no illusions: it will be misunderstood, at the very least.
I expect there will be plenty of people who argue that it does not solve
the problem, but I don't really care, because I think history will
eventually show that this is indeed the right answer. It gives a
satisfying answer to all the outstanding questions and it feels right.
Oh, and it does make some testable predictions. Alas, we do not yet
have the technology to perform the tests yet, but the predictions are on
the table, anyhow.
In a longer version I would go into a lot more detail, introducing the
background material at more length, analyzing the other proposals that
have been made and fleshing out the technical aspects along several
dimensions. But the size limit for the conference was 6 pages, so that
was all I could cram in.
Richard Loosemore
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