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Consciousness: Natural and Artificial

Based on results from evolutionary psychology, we discuss important functions that can be served by consciousness in autonomous robots. These include deliberately controlled action, conscious awareness, self-awareness, metacognition, and ego consciousness. We distinguish intrinsic intentionality from consciousness, but argue it is also important to understanding robot cognition. Finally, we exp...

Natural and Artificial Minds

The framework of this chapter is a hypothetical scale of comparative animal intelligence that includes measures of the ability to use concepts and logical operations. The scale is hierarchical and equates intelligence with learning ability. The scale is exhaustive, because it includes all the basic forms of learning from which all other kinds of learning are constructed and because it is applic...

Language Games, Natural and Artificial

Natural languages are the ultimate knowledge representation languages. Everything that can be expressed in any artificial language or notation can be expressed with equal precision in a natural language. For many applications, however, artificial languages can be more concise or better tailored to the requirements. A key to understanding the relationships between natural languages and artificia...

Artificial Life and Natural Intelligence

This paper reviews the neuroscience literature to sculpt a view of intelligence from the artificial life (ALife) perspective. Three key themes are used to motivate a journey down the low road to cognition. First, the origins of brain structures and dynamics exhibit considerable emergence at phylogenic, epigenetic, and ontogenetic levels. Second, ALife complexity measures have interesting parall...

10 Artificial and Natural Membranes