Digital Seeds from a Virutal Core

Robert Clowes, Steve Torrance
& Ron Chrisley
Machine Consciousness

Embodiment and Imagination

Kiverstein’s complex and subtle
argument aims to demonstrate that the DSM account can show how an
artificial agent that exercises the appropriate sensorimotor knowledge
has a subjective point of view, and hence a consciousness of itself as the
owner of experiences. Such an approach implies that the fine-grained
character of motor control has a key significance for consciousness

Discussions over MC impact on many other
mainstream issues concerning consciousness: how consciousness is to

be defined or characterized; what different kinds of consciousness
there are (core, phenomenal, access, functional, …); how these differ-
ent types relate to one another, and so on.

So, in decades to come, devel-
oping work on machine consciousness may come strongly to affect
how consciousness is seen, by both lay people and experts alike.