CEPE/IACAP Joint Conference 2021 - Abstract Submission and Registration

Session

Synthetic Minds and Consciousness

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133. An exploration on the emergence of Machine Consciousness, and the Risk of Robocentrism

Individual Paper

This paper presents a deep dive into the possible emergence of machine consciousness, and subsequent development of Robocentric ethical and moral values.

Drawing on biologist Mario Vaneechoutte’s (2000) evolutionary approach to experience, awareness, and consciousness, as well as aspects of Braitenberg’s Vehicles (1984), this paper demonstrates that without programming specific...

98. Representation and Machine Agency

Beba Cibralic (Georgetown University), Dr James Mattingly (Georgetown University)

Individual Paper

Theories of action tend to require agents to have mental representations. A common trope in discussions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that they don’t, and so cannot be agents. Properly understood there may be something to the requirement, but the trope is badly misguided. Here we provide an account of representation for AI that is sufficient to underwrite attributions to these systems of...

57. Synthetic Minds and Mental Disorders

Roman Krzanowski (The Pontifical University of John Paul II)

Individual Paper

Synthetic intelligence—in addition to the properties of reasoning, ethical thinking, judgment, and other characteristics of the human mind—will also exhibit a propensity for mental illness or mental disorder. Mental disorder can be understood here as a sort of malfunction in a synthetic mind or brain. It is obviously a natural feature of the human mind, so it is inherent in the brain’s design....