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A novel representationalist theory of consciousness is presented that is grounded in neuroscience and provides a path to artificially conscious computing. Central to the theory are representational affordances of the conscious experience…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-24 K. Schmidt , J. Culbertson , C. Cox , H. S. Clouse , O. Larue , M. Molineaux , S. Rogers

This is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI consciousness. We will soon create AI systems that are conscious according to some influential, mainstream theories of consciousness but are not conscious according to other influential,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Eric Schwitzgebel

We describe the Turing Machine, list some of its many influences on the theory of computation and complexity of computations, and illustrate its importance.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-26 P. M. B. Vitanyi

The Cognitive Theory of True Conditions (CTTC) is a proposal to design the implementation of cognitive abilities and to describe the model-theoretic semantics of symbolic cognitive architectures. The CTTC is formulated mathematically using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Sergio Miguel-Tomé

According to many researchers, conceptual model (CM) development is a hard task, and system requirements are difficult to collect, causing many miscommunication problems. CMs require more than modeling ability alone - they first require an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Large Language Models (LLMs) still face challenges in tasks requiring understanding implicit instructions and applying common-sense knowledge. In such scenarios, LLMs may require multiple attempts to achieve human-level performance,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hanzhong Zhang , Jibin Yin , Haoyang Wang , Ziwei Xiang

Programming machines with commonsense reasoning (CSR) abilities is a longstanding challenge in the Artificial Intelligence community. Current CSR benchmarks use multiple-choice (and in relatively fewer cases, generative) question-answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Henrique Santos , Ke Shen , Alice M. Mulvehill , Yasaman Razeghi , Deborah L. McGuinness , Mayank Kejriwal

The search for reliable indicators of consciousness has fragmented into competing theoretical camps (Global Workspace Theory (GWT), Integrated Information Theory (IIT), and Higher-Order Theories (HOT)), each proposing distinct neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yin Jun Phua

What is the nature of curiosity? Is there any scientific way to understand the origin of this mysterious force that drives the behavior of even the stupidest naturally intelligent systems and is completely absent in their smartest…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Alex Ushveridze

I examine the hypothesis that consciousness can be understood as a state of matter, "perceptronium", with distinctive information processing abilities. I explore five basic principles that may distinguish conscious matter from other…

Popular Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Max Tegmark

We introduce a new type of generalized Turing machines (GTMs), which are intended as a tool for the mathematician who studies computability in Analysis. In a single tape cell a GTM can store a symbol, a real number, a continuous real…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Nazanin Tavana , Klaus Weihrauch

The consciousness standing for artificial intelligence divides opinions across epistemological positions. Whether or not machines can be conscious, and whether we can ascertain the truth of such a proposition for any given case, has…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-06 Warisa Sritriratanarak , Paulo Garcia

The coding mechanism of sensory memory on the neuron scale is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. We have put forward a quantitative neural network model, which is self organized, self similar, and self adaptive, just like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Peilei Liu , Ting Wang

The aim of this paper is to promote the terms thing and thinging (which refers to the act of defining a boundary around some portion of reality and labeling it with a name) as valued notions that play an important role in software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

We here analyse the question of developing artificial consciousness from an evolutionary perspective, taking the evolution of the human brain and its relation with consciousness as a reference model. This kind of analysis reveals several…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-30 Michele Farisco , Kathinka Evers , Jean-Pierre Changeux

We propose a study of the constitution of meaning in human-computer interaction based on Turing and Wittgenstein's definitions of thought, understanding, and decision. We show by the comparative analysis of the conceptual similarities and…

General Literature · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Charles Bodon

A remarkable new definition of a self-delimiting universal Turing machine is presented that is easy to program and runs very quickly. This provides a new foundation for algorithmic information theory. This new universal Turing machine is…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 G. J. Chaitin

Alan Turing's pioneering work on computability, and his ideas on morphological computing support Andrew Hodges' view of Turing as a natural philosopher. Turing's natural philosophy differs importantly from Galileo's view that the book of…

General Literature · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

Chaitin's work, in its depth and breadth, encompasses many areas of scientific and philosophical interest. It helped establish the accepted mathematical concept of randomness, which in turn is the basis of tools that I have developed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Hector Zenil

We propose and axiomatize the categorical thinking model (CTM) in which the framing of the decision problem affects how agents categorize alternatives, that in turn affects their evaluation of it. Prominent models of salience, status quo…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-02-02 Andrew Ellis , Yusufcan Masatlioglu