Abstract
This paper looks at recent debates in the enactivist literature on computation and consciousness in order to assess conceptual obstacles to building artificial conscious agents. We consider a proposal from Villalobos and Dewhurst (2018) for enactive computation on the basis of organizational closure. We attempt to improve the argument by reflecting on the closed paths through state space taken by finite state automata. This motivates a defense against Clark's recent criticisms of "extended consciousness", and perhaps a new perspective on living with machines.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Journal | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
| Volume | 2287 |
| State | Published - 2018 |
| Event | 2019 Papers of the Towards Conscious AI Systems Symposium, TOCAIS 2019 - Stanford, United States Duration: Mar 25 2019 → Mar 27 2019 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Computer Science
Keywords
- Artificial intelligence
- Computation
- Consciousness
- Enactivism
- Finite state automata
- Predictive coding
- State space
- Turing machine