A short popular science piece on the danger of everyone knowing so much no one is any longer unique.
Read MoreThe title references my earlier paper, A Role for Consciousness in Action Selection in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness 4(2):471-482, which I’m not sure is well enough known to take the confusion of the joke, but this paper has a fun model of selection for metacognition, mostly by Rob.
Read MoreThe role is not so much for immediate selection, but for updating models for future selection. In case you don’t have access, here’s the submitted draft from July 2012.
Read MoreThis is an update of the AISB update of the Vienna Consciousness paper. The next step should be a journal article. The title is a reference to a Dennett quote well worth knowing. The paper claims we already have conscious robots and it’s not that big of a deal. It also puts forward some cool ideas about the functional role of the action-selection-related process that we experience as consciousness.
Read MoreThe paper is a scientific consequence of the ideas put forward in “Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness” (see below), and the work I am doing on understanding the evolution of cognition. It concerns the tradeoffs between individual and genetic learning, and whether these may be shifted on the basis of individual experience over an agent’s life history. Evidence is derived from models of macaque task learning. Camera ready from April 2009. Associated software comes with the standard lisp distribution of BOD.
Read MoreExplains that everything with RAM has functional self awareness, video cameras have perfect memory, what makes us intelligent (and is computationally difficult) is generalising from experience, which involves forgetting / unconsciousness. PDF wanted … but you can get the first third of the article from the link.
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