| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
<P><b>Section 1 Do Machines dream?</b> 1. Machine dreaming? 2. Messages from the Creator -- Primary Consciousness 3. Self-analysis and Reflexive Consciousness 4. Internal Structure and Psychodynamics 5. The Human Interface</p> <p><b>Section 2 -- The Biologic/technical Structure of a Dream </b>6. Visual Imagery and Dreaming 7. Memory Structures and Dreaming 8. Emotions and Dreaming 9. Creating the Perfect Zombie</p> <p><b>Section 3 -- A Philosophy of Dreaming </b>10. AI Consciousness -- A Philosophic Question 11. The Monistic Brain = Mind 12. Dreaming as a Marker for Consciousness 13. Is Dreaming still a marker for Humanity?</p> |
| 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 "dreamsïŽ 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 19, 2017) |
| Subject |
Dreams.
|
|
Consciousness.
|
|
Altered states of consciousness.
|
|
dreams.
|
|
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
|
|
Altered states of consciousness
|
|
Consciousness
|
|
Dreams
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Kirshtein, Philip, editor
|
| LC no. |
2017275390 |
| ISBN |
9780128037423 |
|
0128037423 |
|
