Machine Consciousness:

What does it mean for an information processing system to wake up? Can the concepts of Artificial Intelligence resolve the so-called “Hard Problem” of understanding the nature of phenomenal experience? Are current AI systems already conscious? What are the fundamental differences between existing AI approaches and human minds?

We will take a walk through core ideas in the intellectual tradition of naturalizing minds, explore how the new paradigms of computation resolve the nature of causality, representation and existence, and how identify how computation can lead to consciousness.