Self-Aware Robots
eBook - ePub

Self-Aware Robots

On the Path to Machine Consciousness

  1. 420 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Self-Aware Robots

On the Path to Machine Consciousness

About this book

This book focuses on the research and development in the field of self-aware robots. Its theme is artificial consciousness, a field that covers both artificial intelligence and robotics, and includes philosophy, psychology, the study of biological evolution, physiology, and medicine, especially brain neuroscience and neuropsychiatry. Building on the first edition, Creation of a Conscious Robot: Mirror Image Cognition and Self-Awareness, this new edition discusses artificial neural networks and functions of human consciousness. It proposes a structure for a neural network with consciousness functions, explains the construction of a conscious system, and discusses the results of progressive research in designing and developing small robots with conscious systems capable of recognizing their own images in mirrors. Emphasizing the contributions of conscious robots to society and their potential future impact, the book also describes the robots that know the unknown, Pavlovian robots, and the development of a consciousness model possessing the well-known multiple personality disorder.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface to the Second Edition
  8. Preface to the First Edition
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Story of Robots
  11. 3 Story of the Human Brain
  12. 4 Human Consciousness and the Mind
  13. 5 Professor Valentino Braitenberg’s Vehicles
  14. 6 Professor Rodney Brooks' Robots
  15. 7 Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Evolution
  16. 8 Machine Consciousness
  17. 9 New Architecture of Robot Consciousness and the Robot Mind
  18. 10 Physical Demonstration of Successful Mirror Image Cognition by a Robot
  19. 11 Further Developments
  20. 12 Conclusions
  21. Afterword to the First Edition
  22. Afterword to the Second Edition
  23. Appendix A: Author’s Response to Reactions to Discovery News
  24. Appendix B: On the Safety and Ethics of Robots
  25. Appendix C: Quotation from Discovery News
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index