Machine dreaming and consciousness / J.F. Pagel, Philip Kirshtein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pagel, James F., author.

Contributor:

Kirshtein, Philip, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams.

Consciousness.

Altered states of consciousness.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : Academic Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

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 "dreamsïÅ1/2 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.

Contents:

Section I Machine Dreaming and Consciousness-The Human Perspective 1

1 Dreaming: The Human Perspective 3

Dream Definition # 1 Messages From God 5

Dream Definition # 2 Bizarre or Hallucinatory Mentation 6

Dream Definition # 3 Reports of Mental Activity Occurring During Sleep 6

Dream Definition # 4 Dreaming is REM Sleep 7

Dream Definition # 5 A Dream is Taking Place When a Lucid Dreamer Pushes a Button 8

Dream Definition # 6 The Fulfillment of a Wish 9

The Problems of Definition 9

The Phenomenology of Dreams 10

Partial Metaphors 12

The Dreams of Machines? 13

Notes 14

2 The Mechanics of Human Consciousness 17

Human Consciousness 23

The Neurobiology of Human Consciousness 24

Neuroanatomy 26

Neurochemistry 27

Electrophysiology 27

Human Consciousness-An Overview of the Processing System 28

Constructing Machine Consciousness 29

Notes 31

3 Animal Dreaming-Animal Consciousness 33

Animal Dreaming 33

Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep 34

REM Sleep Behavior Disorder 34

Proving that Dogs Dream 35

The Functions of Dreaming 38

Comparing Animal Dreams to Human Dreams 39

Animal Consciousness-Primary and Secondary 41

Tertiary Aspects of Animal Consciousness 42

Attention 43

Intention 44

Self-Awareness and Reflexive Consciousness (Demasio's Dog) 44

Animal Consciousness-Lions and Bats 45

Notes 46

4 Testing for Machine Consciousness 49

Applied Tests 53

Intelligence 53

Attention 56

Intentionality 58

Volition 59

Self-Awareness 61

Autonomous Entities (Strong AI) 61

Dreaming as Consciousness 62

Notes 63

Section II Machine Dream Equivalents 67

5 Sleep Modes 69

Sleep in Finite State Machines 70

Screensavers 73

Expanding Sleep Mode 75

Network Sleep 75

Bottleneck Routers 78

Flow Congestion Avoidance 78

Machine Sleep-Summary 80

Notes 81

6 Neural Networks: The Hard and Software Logic 83

Fuzzy Logic 84

Artificial Neural Networks 85

Dream-Like Neural Network Processing 90

Notes 92

7 Filmmaking: Creating Artificial Dreams at the Interface 93

The Visual Imagery of Dream 95

The Sensor

The Neurological Processing of Imagery 96

Representaional Images 98

Dream Memories 102

Dream Emotions 104

Creating the Artificial Dream-Narrative and Direction 107

AI-Created Dreams 109

Notes 109

8 The Cyborg at the Dream Interface 113

Keyboard-Based Machine Interface Systems 114

Reaching Beyond the Keyboard 115

The Neuroelectric Interface 118

The Dream Interface 123

Notes 125

9 Interpreting the AI Dream 129

Dream Interpretation 131

Machine Data Presentation 132

Machine Data Interpretation 133

Notes 135

10 Creating the Perfect Zombie 137

Neural Nets 139

Creating the Perfect Zombie 140

Neuroanatomic Zombies 141

Limitations in Creating the Neuroanatomic Zomble: CNS Complexity 143

Perfect Zombies 145

Notes 147

Section III The Philosophy of Machine Dreaming 149

11 Anthropomorphism: Philosophies of AI Dreaming and Consciousness 153

Anthropomorphism 154

Anthropomorphic Fears 156

Anthropomorphic Machines 157

Antropomorphism as a Marker of Consciousness 158

Anthropomorphic Dreams 159

Notes 160

12 Searching for Dreams in Other (Stranger) Places 163

The Cave Art of Southwest Europe 164

Dreams in Art 165

Petroglyphs 166

Searching for Dream Images 167

Other Places for Dream Phenomenology-Machines 170

Notes 172

13 Machine Consciousness 175

The Consciousness of Finite State Machines 175

Self-Learning AI 177

Internet Consciousness 178

Internet Capacity for Aspects of Consciousness 180

Interface Consciousness 180

Summary: Aspects of Machine Consciousness 183

Notes 183

14 Forms of Machine Dreaming 187

Machine Dream Equivalents 188

Machine Dream-Messages From God 188

Machine Dreams-Sleep-Associated Mentation 189

Machine Dream-Metaphor 190

Machine Dream-Bizarre & Alternative Outcomes 191

Machine Dream-The Phenomenology 192

Artifically Created REM Sleep 193

Machine-Created Dreams 194

Machine Dreams at the Human Interface 195

Machine Dreaming-System Summary and Comparison 196

Notes 200

15 The Antropomorphic Dream Machine 201

Human Dreams 202

Human Interest in Dreaming 203

Cyborg Dreaming 205

These are not Drams 207

Dreaming as a Marker for Humanity: The Argument for Human Dreaming 209

Notes 211.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 19, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pagel, James F. Machine dreaming and consciousness.

ISBN:

9780128037423

0128037423

OCLC:

982487034

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