Abstract:

The development of conscious machines faces a number of difficult issues such as the apparent immateriality of mind, qualia and self-awareness. Also consciousness-related cognitive processes such as perception, imagination, motivation and inner speech are a technical challenge. It is foreseen that the development of machine consciousness would call for a system approach; the developer of conscious machines should consider complete systems that integrate the cognitive processes seamlessly and process information in a transparent way with representational and non-representational information-processing modes. An overview of the main issues is given and some possible solutions are outlined.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Principal Scientist, Cognitive Technology, Nokia Research Center, P.O. Box 407, FI-00045 NOKIA GROUP, Finland., Email: pentti.haikonen@nokia.com