ABSTRACT I believe consciousness is a property of advanced nervous systems, and as
such a product of evolution. Thus, to understand consciousness we need to describe the …

Despite the compelling subjective experience of executive self-control, we argue that
“consciousness” contains no top-down control processes and that “consciousness” involves …

The purpose of the attention schema theory is to explain how an information-processing
device, the brain, arrives at the claim that it possesses a non-physical, subjective awareness …

Most multicellular animals have a nervous system that is based on the following three
components:(1) sensory cells gather information and send it to processing units;(2) the …

A strategy for investigating consciousness that has proven very productive has focused on
comparing brain processes that are accompanied by consciousness with processes that are …

Scientists disagree about which capacities a functional analysis of consciousness should
target. To address this disagreement, I propose that a good functional analysis should target …

This paper spells out the attention schema theory of consciousness in terms of the predictive
processing framework. As it stands, the attention schema theory lacks a plausible …

The nature of the subjective aspect of consciousness is elusive and hence, there has been a
lot of debate on how to quantify the subjective experience of a human in comparison to other …

A novel method provides an AI language virtual agent having self-improvement features and
which uses language modeling and tree search techniques. The AI language virtual agent …

The article's main objective is to analyse the positive aspect of illusionism and the so-called
“illusion problem” that lies at its heart–the problem of explaining the origin and causes of the …