Description
Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating waking experiences that resemble the human dream. Surprisingly, AI systems also easily meet all human-based operational criteria for dreaming. These “dreams are far different from anthropomorphic dreaming, including such processes as fuzzy logic, liquid illogic, and integration instability, all processes that may be necessary in both biologic and artificial systems to extend creative capacity.
Today, multi-linear AI systems are being built to resemble the structural framework of the human central nervous system. The creation of the biologic framework of dreaming (emotions, associative memories, and visual imagery) is well within our technical capacity. AI dreams potentially portend the further development of consciousness in these systems. This focus on AI dreaming raises even larger questions. In many ways, dreaming defines our humanity. What is humanly special about the states of dreaming? And what are we losing when we limit our focus to its technical and biologic structure, and extend the capacity for dreaming into our artificial creations? Machine Dreaming and Consciousness provides thorough discussion of these issues for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating
Chapter
I. Machine Dreaming and Consciousness—The Human Perspective
1. Dreaming: The Human Perspective
Dream Definition # 1—Messages from God
Dream Definition # 2—Bizarre or Hallucinatory Mentation
Dream Definition # 3—Reports of Mental Activity Occurring During Sleep
Dream Definition # 4—Dreaming is REM Sleep
Dream Definition # 5—A Dream is Taking Place When a Lucid Dreamer Pushes a Button
Dream Definition # 6—The Fulfillment of a Wish
The Problems of Definition
The Phenomenology of Dreams
2. The Mechanics of Human Consciousness
The Neurobiology of Human Consciousness
Human Consciousness—An Overview of the Processing System
Constructing Machine Consciousness
3. Animal Dreaming—Animal Consciousness
Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
The Functions of Dreaming
Comparing Animal Dreams to Human Dreams
Animal Consciousness—Primary and Secondary
Tertiary Aspects of Animal Consciousness
Self-Awareness and Reflexive Consciousness (Demasio’s Dog)
Animal Consciousness—Lions and Bats
4. Testing for Machine Consciousness
Autonomous Entities (Strong AI)
Dreaming as Consciousness
II. Machine Dream Equivalents
Sleep in Finite State Machines
Flow Congestion Avoidance
6. Neural Networks: The Hard and Software Logic
Artificial Neural Networks
Dream-Like Neural Network Processing
7. Filmmaking: Creating Artificial Dreams at the Interface
The Visual Imagery of Dream
The Neurological Processing of Imagery
Creating the Artificial Dream—Narrative and Direction
8. The Cyborg at the Dream Interface
Keyboard-Based Machine Interface Systems
Reaching Beyond the Keyboard
Hardwiring: the direct human–machine interface
The Neuroelectric Interface
Electroshock therapy (ECT and TMS)
Environmental electrical fields
Summary: the neuroelectric interface
9. Interpreting the AI Dream
Machine Data Presentation
Machine Data Interpretation
10. Creating the Perfect Zombie
Creating the Perfect Zombie
Limitations in Creating the Neuroanatomic Zombie: CNS Complexity
III. The Philosophy of Machine Dreaming
11. Anthropomorphism: Philosophies of AI Dreaming and Consciousness
Antropomorphism as a Marker for Consciousness
12. Searching for Dreams in Other (Stranger) Places
The Cave Art of Southwest Europe
Searching for Dream Images
Other Places for Dream Phenomenology—Machines
13. Machine Consciousness
The Consciousness of Finite State Machines
Internet Capacity for Aspects of Consciousness
Summary: Aspects of Machine Consciousness
14. Forms of Machine Dreaming
Machine Dream Equivalents
Machine Dreams—Messages from God
Machine Dreams—Sleep-Associated Mentation
Machine Dreams—Bizarre & Alternative Outcomes
Machine Dreams—The Phenomenology
Artifically Created REM Sleep
Machine Dreams at the Human Interface
Machine Dreaming—System Summary and Comparison
15. The Antropomorphic Dream Machine
Human Interest in Dreaming
Dreaming as a Marker for Humanity: The Argument for Human Dreaming
Machine Dreaming and Consciousness
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