?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Brain-inspired+conscious+computing+architecture&rft.creator=Duch%2C+Prof+Wlodzislaw&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Dynamical+Systems&rft.subject=Neural+Modelling&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.description=What+type+of+artificial+systems+will+claim+to+be+conscious+and+will+claim+to+experience+qualia%3F+The+ability+to+comment+upon+physical+states+of+a+brain-like+dynamical+system+coupled+with+its+environment+seems+to+be+sufficient+to+make+claims.+The+flow+of+internal+states+in+such+system%2C+guided+and+limited+by+associative+memory%2C+is+similar+to+the+stream+of+consciousness.+Minimal+requirements+for+an+artificial+system+that+will+claim+to+be+conscious+were+given+in+form+of+specific+architecture+named+articon.+Nonverbal+discrimination+of+the+working+memory+states+of+the+articon+gives+it+the+ability+to+experience+different+qualities+of+internal+states.+Analysis+of+the+inner+state+flows+of+such+a+system+during+typical+behavioral+process+shows+that+qualia+are+inseparable+from+perception+and+action.+The+role+of+consciousness+in+learning+of+skills%2C+when+conscious+information+processing+is+replaced+by+subconscious%2C+is+elucidated.+Arguments+confirming+that+phenomenal+experience+is+a+result+of+cognitive+processes+are+presented.+Possible+philosophical+objections+based+on+the+Chinese+room+and+other+arguments+are+discussed%2C+but+they+are+insufficient+to+refute+claims+articon%E2%80%99s+claims.+Conditions+for+genuine+understanding+that+go+beyond+the+Turing+test+are+presented.+Articons+may+fulfill+such+conditions+and+in+principle+the+structure+of+their+experiences+may+be+arbitrarily+close+to+human.+%0A%0A&rft.date=2003-12&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3319%2F1%2F03-Brainins.pdf&rft.identifier=++Duch%2C+Prof+Wlodzislaw++(2003)+Brain-inspired+conscious+computing+architecture.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3319%2F