Deep Space Autonomy

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Abstract The artificial intelligence world is
often quite pessimistic about the prospects of
science ever being able to understand
consciousness, let alone program it into a
machine. The position is taken here that the
biggest single barrier to realising Alan Turing's
dream of computer consciousness is nothing more
than poor communication of basic concepts between
academic disciplines. Robotics engineers know
little about mental philosophy, for example,
database designers know little about
psycholinguistics, and so on. The poster
identifies some three dozen particularly
troublesome concepts, and then introduces the
Konrad artificial consciousness project, work in
progress at University of Wales Institute,
Cardiff, in collaboration with International
Software Products, Toronto. The Konrad project
brings together three diverse disciplines - data
analysis, cognitive neuropsychology, and mental
philosophy - in order to simulate the cognition
underlying free will.
Deep Space Autonomy (Aberyswyth
University, current)
MIND AS SOFTWARE
MEMORY AS NETWORK / ARGUMENT AS PROPOSITIONAL SEQ
UENCE
MEMORY AS "ASSOCIATIONIST" NETWORK
LOGICAL VS PHYSICAL DESIGN
Praxis
MIND / SOUL / KNOWLEDGE AS TOPICS OF ENQUIRY
DUALISM VS MATERIALISM
Aesthesis
NERVOUS MACROANATOMY AS TOPIC OF ENQUIRY
NERVOUS MICROANATOMY AS TOPIC OF ENQUIRY
LANGUAGE AS NEUROLOGICALLY VULNERABLE
Ellipsis
Subordinate Clause
Ostension
CLASSICAL GRAMMAR
SEMIOTICS AS TOPIC OF ENQUIRY
Litotes
Anaphora
Metaphor
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