"Charles" Dennett? Any relation to Daniel?
Brent
On 11/24/2020 11:17 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
The Conscious Turing Machine
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=152yq0SPIqk
arXiv:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09850
*A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness*
Manuel Blum [ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/ ],
Lenore Blum [ https://twitter.com/BlumLenore ]
The quest to understand consciousness, once the purview of
philosophers and theologians, is now actively pursued by scientists of
many stripes. This paper studies consciousness from the perspective of
theoretical computer science. It formalizes the Global Workspace
Theory (GWT) originated by cognitive neuroscientist Bernard Baars and
further developed by him, Stanislas Dehaene, and others. Our major
contribution lies in the precise formal definition of a Conscious
Turing Machine (CTM), also called a Conscious AI. We define the CTM in
the spirit of Alan Turing's simple yet powerful definition of a
computer, the Turing Machine (TM). We are not looking for a complex
model of the brain nor of cognition but for a simple model of (the
admittedly complex concept of) consciousness. After formally defining
CTM, we give a formal definition of consciousness in CTM. We then
suggest why the CTM has the feeling of consciousness. The
reasonableness of the definitions and explanations can be judged by
how well they agree with commonly accepted intuitive concepts of human
consciousness, the breadth of related concepts that the model explains
easily and naturally, and the extent of its agreement with scientific
evidence.
cf.
https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/11/23/eureka-a-family-of-computer-scientists-developed-a-blueprint-for-machine-consciousness/
@philipthrift
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