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Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate Level Fallacy
2018
Recently, there has been considerable interest and effort to the possibility to design and implement conscious robots, i.e., the chance that a robot may have subjective experiences. However, typical approaches as the global workspace, information integration, enaction, cognitive mechanisms, embodiment, i.e., the Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness, henceforth, GOFAC, share the same conceptual framework. In this paper, we discuss GOFAC's basic tenets and their implication for AI and Robotics. In particular, we point out the intermediate level fallacy as the central issue affecting GOFAC. Finally, we outline a possible alternative conceptual framework towards robot consciousness.
Kant and the scientific study of consciousness.
2010
We argue that Kant’s views about consciousness, the mind—body problem and the status of psychology as a science all differ drastically from the way in which these topics are conjoined in present debates about the prominent idea of a science of consciousness. Kant never used the concept of consciousness in the now dominant sense of phenomenal qualia; his discussions of the mind—body problem center not on the reducibility of mental properties but of substances; and his views about the possibility of psychology as a science did not employ the requirement of a mechanistic explanation, but of a quantification of phenomena. This shows strikingly how deeply philosophical problems and conceptions c…
Return Visits: The European Background of Transcultural Life Writing
2013
In this article I read autobiographies by East Europeans who immigrated to Canada in connection with the Second World War as examples of transcultural life writing. My focus on the representation of return visits of these loyal Canadian citizens to their country of origin after 1989 reveals the underlying intention of relating the experience of life in a multicultural democratic society to the emergence of a new political consciousness in Eastern Europe. In my analysis I distinguish four types of concerns which try to bridge the past of their childhood experiences with the formation of a transcultural life in the 21st century: 1. Anna Porter’s return visit to Hungary for family reunion and …
Anthony Collins on the Status of Consciousness
2014
Anthony Collins (1676-1729) maintains that consciousness might be a material process or result from material processes. On the one hand, Collins accepts Locke’s view that from consciousness, i.e., the activity of thinking, we acquire no knowledge about the nature of the thinking substance. On the other, he takes seriously Samuel Clarke’s challenge that the thinking substance must be suitably unified because consciousness is unified. In this paper, I argue that, throughout his correspondence with Clarke, Collins maintains that consciousness signifies actual thinking and does not refer to the capacity of thinking. His main materialist thesis is that the powers of parts of material systems can…
Tuvās vēstures ainas. Vēsturisko priekšstatu par Livoniju rašanās 13.gadsimta historiogrāfija
2014
Promocijas darba tēma ir vēstures priekšstatu par Livoniju izcelsmes un formēšanās procesa īpatnības 13. gadsimta historiogrāfijā. Izpētes fokusā ir hronikas, annāles un citi historiogrāfijas teksti, kas radīti ārpus Livonijas laikā starp 1195./1196. un 1280. gadu. Viduslaiku Eiropas 13. gadsimta historiogrāfijā samērā reti sastopami notikumu apraksti, kas atspoguļo Livonijas sociālo, politisko un kultūras integrāciju viduslaiku pasaulē. Šie hroniku un annāļu teksti uzskatāmi parāda, ar kādu nolūku, kādiem literāriem līdzekļiem un kādu mērķi senie autori veidoja savus Livonijas pagātnes konceptus. To pamatā bija Rietumu kultūrā iedibināta izpratne un priekšstati par vēsturi kā pagātnes stās…
Karl Marx: Umanismo e Materialismo
2022
In the context of the contemporary age, Karl Marx represents a classical author. His theory of historical materialism is the basis of his general vision of reality with the principles of “self-consciousness” and “class consciousness”. To the optimism of idealism, centered on pure theory, Marx opposes a new cultural model in relation to praxis and political economy. His production must therefore be read in all its phases, from youth to maturity, with the aim of interpreting historical materialism as a peculiar form of humanism and naturalism. Humanism; Naturalism; Self-consciousness; Class Consciousness.
Io puro, io reale e storicità immanente del soggetto. A partire dal Bleistiftmanuskript (1912) di Husserl
2020
Il cosiddetto Bleistiftmanuskript (Manoscritto a matita), risalente al periodo tra ottobre e dicembre 1912, è uno dei tre testi originari (Urtexte) da cui è stata elaborata la nuova edizione critica di Idee II di Edmund Husserl. Il manoscritto ci pone di fronte al problema del rapporto tra l'Io puro e l’oscurità della coscienza. L'articolo ricostruisce questo rapporto, interpretandolo come una dinamica tra ‘compimento d’atto’ (Aktvollzug) ed ‘estraneazione’ (Entfremdung) e cercando di dare un resoconto dello stato effettivo del sé nel suo rapporto con le cose materiali e con il corpo. In fase conclusiva, l’articolo intende far emergere anche la nozione fenomenologica di una specifica ‘vulne…
Ewolucja ludzkości według Hoene-Wrońskiego
2017
The aim of this article is to recall and, at the same time, to update, the theory of the evolution of humanity by Josef Hoëné-Wronski. I am trying to show that the author of Metapolitics (Métapolitique messianique) and of other philosophical and mathematical works was much ahead of his contemporaries concerning his ideas about evolution and these ideas, although expressed in a somewhat archaic and obscure language, are still valid for us today. Hoëné-Wronski has boldly challenged the deterministic picture of the world emerging from modern science and has derived human evolution from the moral and rational development of human beings. He divided it into seven stages. My interpretation of Hoë…
Organisational Learning and Knowledge Management: A Prospective Analysis Based on the Levels of Consciousness
2018
In this chapter, we analyse the concepts of organizational learning and knowledge management by relating them to the levels of human and organizational consciousness. In doing so, we understand the existence of different conceptualizations of both organizational learning and knowledge management, and relate them to several organizational models and levels of organizational learning. The learning organization model is related to the highest level of consciousness and to the highest level of learning: triple-loop learning. We associate this with an organizational learning perspective that stresses the importance of mindfulness, mindful learning, and with a knowledge management perspective tha…
Editorial: Consciousness in Humanoid Robots
2019
Building a conscious robot is a grand scientific and technological challenge. Debates about the possibility of conscious robots and the related positive outcomes and hazards for human beings are today no longer confined to philosophical circles.