Description
Machine Dreaming and Consciousness
Authors: Pagel J. F., Kirshtein Philip
Language: EnglishSubject for Machine Dreaming and Consciousness:
Keywords
AI; Analogue; Animal dreaming; Anthropocentrism; Anthropomorphism; Archaic; Art; Artificial intelligence; Attention; Autonomous entity; Autonomy; Biofeedback; Bizarre-hallucinatory mentation; Bottleneck router; Brain-computer interface (BCI); Cave art; Chinese Room Test; Cinematography; Cognitive cyborg; Common sense; Commonsense; Complexity; Complexity theory; Computer-generated dreams; Congestion collapse; Consciousness; Content; Continuity; Creativity; Data presentation; Definition; Defragmen
59.52 €
In Print (Delivery period: 14 days).
Add to cart the print on demand of Pagel J. F., Kirshtein PhilipSupport: Print on demand
Description
/li>Contents
/li>Readership
/li>Biography
/li>Comment
/li>
Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating waking experiences that resemble the human dream. Surprisingly, AI systems also easily meet all human-based operational criteria for dreaming. These ?dreams are far different from anthropomorphic dreaming, including such processes as fuzzy logic, liquid illogic, and integration instability, all processes that may be necessary in both biologic and artificial systems to extend creative capacity.
Today, multi-linear AI systems are being built to resemble the structural framework of the human central nervous system. The creation of the biologic framework of dreaming (emotions, associative memories, and visual imagery) is well within our technical capacity. AI dreams potentially portend the further development of consciousness in these systems. This focus on AI dreaming raises even larger questions. In many ways, dreaming defines our humanity. What is humanly special about the states of dreaming? And what are we losing when we limit our focus to its technical and biologic structure, and extend the capacity for dreaming into our artificial creations? Machine Dreaming and Consciousness provides thorough discussion of these issues for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition.
Section I: Machine Dreaming and Consciousness—The Human Perspective1. Dreaming: The Human Perspective2. The Mechanics of Human Consciousness3. Animal Dreaming - Animal Consciousness4. Testing for Machine Consciousness
Section II: Machine Dream Equivalents5. Sleep Modes6. Neural Networks: The Hard and Software Logic7. Filmmaking: Creating Artificial Dreams at the Interface8.The Cyborg at the Dream Interface9. Interpreting the AI Dream10. Creating the Perfect Zombie
Section III: The Philosophy of Machine Dreaming11. Anthropomorphism: Philosophies of AI Dreaming and Consciousness12. Searching for Dreams in Other (Stranger) Places13. Machine Consciousness14. Forms of Machine Dreaming15. The Antropomorphic Dream Machine
- Addresses the function and role of dream-like processing in AI systems
- Describes the functions of dreaming in the creative process of both humans and machines
- Presents an alternative approach to the philosophy of machine consciousness
- Provides thorough discussion of machine dreaming and consciousness for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition