A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03,...
-
Upload
vanessa-fletcher -
Category
Documents
-
view
214 -
download
0
Transcript of A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03,...
![Page 1: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
A Software Agent with a Self?A Software Agent with a Self?
Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03,
ISI, Torino, Italy
Stan Franklinand the
“Conscious” Software Research Group
![Page 2: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
2
IDA: an Intelligent Distribution Agent
IDA: an Intelligent Distribution Agent
Detailer
Telephone
Dialogue with sailors
Read personnel data
Check job requisition lists
Enforce Navy policies
Choose jobs to offer members
Negotiate with them about jobsInternet
IDA
![Page 3: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
3
Global Workspace Theory
• A psychological theory of consciousness
• The nervous system is a distributed parallel system with many different specialized processors
• Global workspace contains a coalition of processors
• Broadcasts globally to all other processors
• Recruit other processors needed for any degree of novel or problematic situation
• Explains limited capacity and seriality
![Page 4: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
4
Contexts at work
![Page 5: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
5
Processing in IDAProcessing in IDA
A continuing iteration of a cognitive cycle of activities involving:
• Perception• Working memory• Transient episodic memory• Long-term declarative memory• ‘Consciousness’• Action selection• Motor activity
![Page 6: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
![Page 7: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
7
The Various SelvesThe Various Selves
![Page 8: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
8
Baars—Self as the enduring contextBaars—Self as the enduring context
![Page 9: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
9
Baar’s Self-SystemBaar’s Self-System
• Higher Levels of the dominant context hierarchy• Overarching • Enduring• Includes both goal contexts
and conceptual contexts• Not available to introspection• Includes self-concept • Executive function (volitional self)
![Page 10: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
10
Damasio’s Proto-SelfDamasio’s Proto-Self
• Moment to moment
• Unconscious
• Tracks state of
organism
• Proprioception
• Homeostasis
• Implement in IDA
• Operating system parameters
• Behavior net parameters
• Memory (SDM) parameters
• Number of threads
• Computer memory usage
![Page 11: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
11
Minimal (Core) SelfMinimal (Core) Self
• Gallagher, Damasio, Donald, many others
• Self as subject—self-as-subject fringe codelets
• Self as experiencer— fringe codelets (?), always present (?),
function (?)
• Self as agent— intention codelets (are generated when one creates an intention to look for opportunities to do something).
![Page 12: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
12
Extended SelfExtended Self
• Autobiographical Self—Hierarchical autobiographical memory (SDM?)
• Self-concept (Blackmore—Selfplex)
• Self-beliefs—Semantic Memory (SDM?)
• Intentions—Intention Codelets
• Volitional Self (Baars—Executive Function)
• Ideomotor theory as a behavior stream
• Intention codelet for each volitional goal (intention)
• Narrative Self (Gazzaniga—Interpreter)
• Understanding report requests and making reports
![Page 13: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
13
Understanding Requests for a Report
Understanding Requests for a Report
• Perception codelets
• Slipnet nodes and links
• Working memory tags
![Page 14: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
14
Making ReportsMaking Reports
• Motivation—pleasure at responding to queries about self
• Conscious of request—request attention codelets
• Report contents of consciousness • Report behavior streams• Report message scripts
![Page 15: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
15
Is IDA a conscious artifact?Is IDA a conscious artifact?
• Functional vs. Phenomenal Consciousness
• IDA is functionally conscious
• I doubt IDA is phenomenally conscious
• No good argument to support that doubt
• Can you give me one?
• Would IDA with a self be phenomenally conscious?
![Page 16: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
16
PredictionsPredictions
SERIOUSWe humans will build “conscious”software agentsand/or “conscious” robots,so intelligent, so sophisticated, and so communicative that people will simply
assume that they are sentient.
SPECULATIVE (Sloman)Some day, these same “conscious” software agentswill find themselves discussingwhether or not humans canreally experience qualia.
![Page 17: A Software Agent with a Self? Machine Consciousness: Complexity Aspects 29 Sept to 1st October '03, ISI, Torino, Italy Stan Franklin and the “Conscious”](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062517/56649efe5503460f94c13a4b/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
September 30, 2003 Stan Franklin—Machine Consciousness—Torino
17
Web and Email AddressesWeb and Email Addresses
• Stan Franklin • [email protected]—• www.cs.memphis.edu/~franklin
• ‘Conscious’ Software Research Group• www.cs.memphis.edu/~csrg