Publication: Towards the generation of visual qualia in artificial cognitive architectures
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ISBN: 978-84-614-1870-1 (electronic edition)
ISBN: 978-84-614-1869-5 (online edition)
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2010
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Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS)
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The nature and the generation of qualia in machines is a highly controversial issue. Even the existence of such a concept in the realm of artificial systems is often neglected or denied. In this work, we adopt a pragmatic approach to this problem using the Synthetic Phenomenology perspective. Specifically, we explore the generation of visual qualia in an artificial cognitive architecture inspired on the Global Workspace Theory (GWT). We argue that preliminary results obtained as part of this research line will help to characterize and identify artificial qualia as the direct products of conscious perception in machines. Additionally, we provide a computational model for integrated covert and overt perception in the framework of the GWT. A simple form of the apparent motion effect is used as a preliminary experimental context and a practical case study for the generation of synthetic visual experience. Thanks to an internal inspection subsystem, we are able to analyze both covert and overt percepts generated by our system when confronted with visual stimuli. The inspection of the internal states generated within the cognitive architecture enable us to discuss possible analogies with human cognition processes.
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Proceeding of: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2010). Madrid, Spain, 14-16 July, 2010.
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BICS 2010 Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, pp.1-14