Efforts to create computational models of consciousness have accelerated over the last two decades, creating a field that has become known as artificial consciousness. There have been two main motivations for this controversial work: to develop a better scientific understanding of the nature of human/animal consciousness and to produce machines that genuinely exhibit conscious awareness. This r...

Work on consciousness by neurophilosophers often leaves a certain group of other philosophers frustrated. The latter group of philosophers, which includes people such as believe that consciousness is something quite different from the brain circuitry or other processes that are active in cognition. They feel frustrated because work on consciousness by neurophilosophers usually ignore this view,...

It has become a commonplace for reviews of books on consciousness to ask: Do we really need another book on consciousness? But in reviewing Igor Aleksander's latest book, I can brush this question aside, as there are relatively few books on its particular sub-topic: machine consciousness (other notable exceptions include, e.g. [1,2]). 'Machine consciousness' is perhaps a misleading term – it co...

The paper has discussed the characteristics of consciousness of professional role of rural teachers and the relationship between consciousness of professional role and work autonomy. By randomly sampling, a survey is conducted among 265 primary and secondary school teachers from Sichuan province. It is found that the whole consciousness of professional role of rural teachers from Sichuan provin...

The problem of consciousness is examined in the article. It is argued that all the existing approaches to consciousness do not explain the role consciousness plays in human life. An attempt of revealing and describing the principles of the mind’s work is made. Experimental phenomena observed by the author and his followers, particularly, the tendency of previously non-realized ideas not to be r...

The paper presents findings from a government funded, industry-based study of timber handling tasks in New Zealand log sawmills, and discusses some of the issues encountered in conducting a long term study of this type. Twelve months’ of accident register records from a sample of log sawmills were first analysed to determine the tasks most commonly linked with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). W...

Psychologists debate whether consciousness or unconsciousness is most central to human behavior. Our goal, instead, is to figure out how they work together. Conscious processes are partly produced by unconscious processes, and much information processing occurs outside of awareness. Yet, consciousness has advantages that the unconscious does not. We discuss how consciousness causes behavior, dr...

Functionalists about consciousness identify consciousness with a role; physicalists identify consciousness with an implementer of that role. The global workspace theory of consciousness fits the functionalist perspective, but the physicalist sees consciousness as a biological phenomenon that implements global accessibility.