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As artificially intelligent systems become more anthropomorphic and pervasive, and their potential impact on humanity more urgent, discussions about the possibility of machine consciousness have significantly intensified, and it is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-01 Nur Aizaan Anwar , Cosmin Badea

Artificially intelligent systems have become remarkably sophisticated. They hold conversations, write essays, and seem to understand context in ways that surprise even their creators. This raises a crucial question: Are we creating systems…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Derek Shiller , Laura Duffy , Arvo Muñoz Morán , Adrià Moret , Chris Percy , Hayley Clatterbuck

Machine Consciousness is the study of consciousness in a biological, philosophical, mathematical and physical perspective and designing a model that can fit into a programmable system architecture. Prime objective of the study is to make…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-02-02 C. N. Padhy , R. R. Panda

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities, they often struggle with complex tasks that require specific thinking paradigms, such as divide-and-conquer and procedural deduction, \etc Previous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Jia Li , Huangzhao Zhang , Jingjing Xu , Hao Zhu , Lecheng Wang , Jia Li , Yihong Dong , Jing Mai , Bin Gu , Zhi Jin

The "easy" problem of cognitive science is explaining how and why we can do what we can do. The "hard" problem is explaining how and why we feel. Turing's methodology for cognitive science (the Turing Test) is based on doing: Design a model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Stevan Harnad

In this paper, we continue the efforts of the Computational Theory of Intelligence (CTI) by extending concepts to include computational processes in terms of Genetic Algorithms (GA's) and Turing Machines (TM's). Active, Passive, and Hybrid…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Daniel Kovach

The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis states that consciousness is a substrate-free functional property of computational systems capable of second-order perception. I propose a research program to investigate this idea in silico by studying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Stephen Fitz

The Turing Test (TT) checks for human intelligence, rather than any putative general intelligence. It involves repeated interaction requiring learning in the form of adaption to the human conversation partner. It is a macro-level post-hoc…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Bruce Edmonds , Carlos Gershenson

The development of advanced generative chat models, such as ChatGPT, has raised questions about the potential consciousness of these tools and the extent of their general artificial intelligence. ChatGPT consistent avoidance of passing the…

General Literature · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Arend Hintze

We propose Token Turing Machines (TTM), a sequential, autoregressive Transformer model with memory for real-world sequential visual understanding. Our model is inspired by the seminal Neural Turing Machine, and has an external memory…

Generative AI techniques have opened the path for new generations of machines in diverse domains. These machines have various capabilities for example, they can produce images, generate answers or stories, and write codes based on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Nitisha Aggarwal , Geetika Jain Saxena , Sanjeev Singh , Amit Pundir

In the last year or so and going back many decades there has been extensive claims by major computational scientists, engineers, and others that AGI, artificial general intelligence, is five or ten years away, but without a scintilla of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jay Seitz

Collectiveness is an important property of many systems--both natural and artificial. By exploiting a large number of individuals, it is often possible to produce effects that go far beyond the capabilities of the smartest individuals, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Roberto Casadei

One of the current AI issues depicted in popular culture is the fear of conscious super AIs that try to take control over humanity. And as computational power goes upwards and that turns more and more into a reality, understanding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-22 Daniel Lopes

In this demo, we present ConsciousControlFlow(CCF), a prototype system to demonstrate conscious Artificial Intelligence (AI). The system is based on the computational model for consciousness and the hierarchy of needs. CCF supports typical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Hongzhi Wang , Bozhou Chen , Yueyang Xu , Kaixin Zhang , Shengwen Zheng

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

Having a rich multimodal inner language is an important component of human intelligence that enables several necessary core cognitive functions such as multimodal prediction, translation, and generation. Building upon the Conscious Turing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Paul Pu Liang

Understanding how subjective experience arises from information processing remains a central challenge in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. The Modular Consciousness Theory (MCT) proposes a biologically grounded and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-03 Michaël Gillon

Existing approaches to Theory of Mind (ToM) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) overemphasize prompted, or cue-based, ToM, which may limit our collective ability to develop Artificial Social Intelligence (ASI). Drawing from research in computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Nikolos Gurney , David V. Pynadath , Volkan Ustun

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