Artificial consciousness

(Klein). Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind sets the focus on this dynamic, examining the impairment imposed on its characters’ perception of their own identity caused by the selective memory erasure. The film portrays the disruption of the consciousness engendered by labored forgetting. As its protagonists struggle with existential crises as a consequence of their treatment, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind challenges the pivotal importance of memory not only in our comprehension of the…

will, consciousness and evolution. It does raise a significant philosophical issue such as the existence of mind and its consciousness which has been debated so long by many philosophers and logical scientist such as John Searle and Alan Turing. Dennett believes that our mind is an imaginary list of instruction that anyone can predict or know about what we know. Physical stance is simply the standard laborious method of the physical sciences, in which…

found?” “Why do we experience what we do?” “How do we know what I am seeing and experiencing is the same thing that you are experiencing?” And perhaps one of the biggest questions that has continued to stump thinkers from every discipline “What is Consciousness?” In medical terms it is roughly defined as “not being unconscious,” whereas in a general sense it has been defined as “being aware” or even just “being awake.” And while there have…

This means that all technology has a consciousness. If we build pieces of technology that have the ability to think as we do and go through similar experiences, then artificial intelligence is a very likely thing. The level of intelligence or consciousness that they would have would vary. We would have to change our behavior and mind set if we agree with Chalmers on the idea that technology can have artificial intelligence because some machines that we have built or will…

Isaac Asimov In 1942, American author and biochemist Isaac Asimov published a short story entitled Runaround. No one would have guessed that this story would become such a major part of science fiction’s “zero hour”. Along with authors such as Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein, Asimov would help form the foundation of modern science fiction and explore new concepts that would soon become the commonplace of the genre. Overall, Asimov had an undeniable impact on the science fiction genre as…

With the resurgence of artificial intelligence in the media and news, I have gained an interest in the philosophical aspects of it. I would like to write a research paper about whether or not an artificial intelligence is deserved of human rights. This topic has greatly peaked my interest, mostly because I have seen the issue proposed in numerous movies and games that I enjoy. Also, there is no definitive answer, so my goal would to present information, then give my opinion and allow the reader…

of this semester my views about the mind and artificial intelligence have changed. In this paper I will first go through how my views about the human mind have changed going over the brain theory of personal identity, the modularity of the mind and mentalese. I will next explain how my views about artificial intelligence have changed over this semester, focusing on the brain theory, modularity, mentalese, the Turing test and arguments against artificial intelligence. At the beginning of this…

Defining humanity becomes a greater challenge when parts or the entirety of a person’s body, the thing that identifies them, is artificial. In response to Major Kusanagi’s concern that she is potentially just an artificial personality created by a cyberbrain with a miniscule amount of brain cells, her comrade argues: “I’m sure the number of parts needed to be human is more than two or three cells!” acknowledging also that…

Evolution of Consciousness” that consciousness as “an evolutionary phenomenon embedded within an evolutionary universe” (322). Such a statement spurs the thought that during all stages of Homo sapiens evolution, consciousness will follow. Homo sapiens in 2001: A Space Odyssey are presented in three different stages of evolution: man apes, modern day humanity, and sentient beings without a need for flesh. Emergence of consciousness led to the discovery of tools, while the growth of consciousness…

Violent delights have violent ends "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race” (Stephen Hawking). Hawking divulges that as we approach the singularity, our own creations will render us evolutionarily obsolete. Our great developments over time are the things that have allowed us to make our own tools, languages and commerce but someday instead of creating new technology our innovations may bring us to our own demise. Science fiction writer Vernor…