CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE MACHINE |
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| Authors: | Eugene G. d'Aquili rew B. Newberg |
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| Affiliation: | Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, may be reached at Limina, 2400 Chestnut Street, Suite 1503, Philadelphia, PA 19103.;A resident in internal medicine at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, also may be reached at Limina, 2400 Chestnut Street, Suite 1503, Philadelphia, PA 19103. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. We consider only the relationship of consciousness to physical reality, whether physical reality is interpreted as the brain, artificial intelligence, or the universe as a whole. The difficulties with starting the analysis with physical reality on the one hand and with consciousness on the other are delineated. We consider how one may derive from the other. Concepts of universal or pure consciousness versus local or ego consciousness are explored with the possibility that consciousness may be physically creative. We examine whether artificial intelligence can possess consciousness as an extension of the interrelationship between consciousness and the brain or material reality. |
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| Keywords: | artificial intelligence brain consciousness material reality neuroepistemology subjective awareness |
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