Publication: On the practical nature of artificial qualia
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2010
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Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour
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Can machines ever have qualia? Can we build robots with inner worlds of subjective experience? Will qualia experienced by robots be comparable to subjective human experience? Is the young field of Machine Consciousness (MC) ready to answer these questions? In this paper, rather than trying to answer these questions directly, we argue that a formal definition, or at least a functional characterization, of artificial qualia is required in order to establish valid engineering principles for synthetic phenomenology (SP). Understanding what might be the differences, if any, between natural and artificial qualia is one of the first questions to be answered. Furthermore, if an interim and less ambitious definition of artificial qualia can be outlined, the corresponding model can be implemented and used to shed some light on the very nature of consciousness.1In this work we explore current trends in MC and SP from the perspective of artificial qualia, attempting to identify key features that could contribute to a practical characterization of this concept. We focus specifically on potential implementations of artificial qualia as a means to provide a new interdisciplinary tool for research on natural and artificial cognition.
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Proceeding of: 2010 Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB 2010), Leicester, UK, 29 March - 1 April, 2010.
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2010 Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB 2010), pp.1-6