Theories of consciousness

AK Seth, T Bayne - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
Recent years have seen a blossoming of theories about the biological and physical basis of
consciousness. Good theories guide empirical research, allowing us to interpret data …

Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

S Dehaene, F Al Roumi, Y Lakretz, S Planton… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022‏ - cell.com
Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

Consciousness in artificial intelligence: insights from the science of consciousness

P Butlin, R Long, E Elmoznino, Y Bengio… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest
and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and …

Large language models and the reverse turing test

TJ Sejnowski - Neural computation, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large language models (LLMs) have been transformative. They are pretrained foundational
models that are self-supervised and can be adapted with fine-tuning to a wide range of …

[HTML][HTML] Conscious processing and the global neuronal workspace hypothesis

GA Mashour, P Roelfsema, JP Changeux, S Dehaene - Neuron, 2020‏ - cell.com
We review the central tenets and neuroanatomical basis of the global neuronal workspace
(GNW) hypothesis, which attempts to account for the main scientific observations regarding …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative, multiscale view on neural theories of consciousness

JF Storm, PC Klink, J Aru, W Senn, R Goebel… - Neuron, 2024‏ - cell.com
How is conscious experience related to material brain processes? A variety of theories
aiming to answer this age-old question have emerged from the recent surge in …

[ספר][B] Robot-proof: higher education in the age of artificial intelligence

JE Aoun - 2017‏ - books.google.com
How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover—
filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot. Driverless cars are hitting the …

[PDF][PDF] What is consciousness, and could machines have it?

S Dehaene, H Lau, S Kouider - Robotics, AI, and humanity …, 2021‏ - library.oapen.org
The controversial question of whether machines may ever be conscious must be based on a
careful consideration of how consciousness arises in the only physical system that …

Engagement in digital interventions.

I Nahum-Shani, SD Shaw, SM Carpenter… - American …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
The notion of “engagement,” which plays an important role in various domains of
psychology, is gaining increased currency as a concept that is critical to the success of …

An adversarial collaboration protocol for testing contrasting predictions of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theory

L Melloni, L Mudrik, M Pitts, K Bendtz, O Ferrante… - Plos one, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
The relationship between conscious experience and brain activity has intrigued scientists
and philosophers for centuries. In the last decades, several theories have suggested …