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Machine dreaming and consciousness
- Title
- Machine dreaming and consciousness / J.F. Pagel, Philip Kirshtein.
- Author
- Pagel, James F.
- Publication
- London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kirshtein, Philip
- Description
- xi, 218 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating waking experiences that resemble the human dream. Surprisingly, AI systems also easily meet all human-based operational criteria for dreaming. These "dreamsïÅu are far different from anthropomorphic dreaming, including such processes as fuzzy logic, liquid illogic, and integration instability, all processes that may be necessary in both biologic and artificial systems to extend creative capacity. Today, multi-linear AI systems are being built to resemble the structural framework of the human central nervous system. The creation of the biologic framework of dreaming (emotions, associative memories, and visual imagery) is well within our technical capacity. AI dreams potentially portend the further development of consciousness in these systems. This focus on AI dreaming raises even larger questions. In many ways, dreaming defines our humanity. What is humanly special about the states of dreaming? And what are we losing when we limit our focus to its technical and biologic structure, and extend the capacity for dreaming into our artificial creations? Machine Dreaming and Consciousness provides thorough discussion of these issues for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-5107
- ISBN
- 9780128037201
- 0128037202
- OCLC
- 960895663
- Author
- Pagel, James F., author.
- Title
- Machine dreaming and consciousness / J.F. Pagel, Philip Kirshtein.
- Publisher
- London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Kirshtein, Philip, author.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Pagel, James F. Machine dreaming and consciousness. London : Academic Press, 2017 9780128037423 (OCoLC)982487034
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-5107