Pagel J.F., Kirshtein P. Machine Dreaming and Consciousness

New York: Academic Press, 2017. — 215 p.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 consciousness and cognition.Entitled to full textMachine Dreaming and Consciousness — The Human PerspectiveDreaming: The Human Perspective
The Mechanics of Human Consciousness
Animal Dreaming — Animal Consciousness
Testing for Machine ConsciousnessMachine Dream EquivalentsSleep Modes
Neural Networks: The Hard and Software Logic
Filmmaking: Creating Artificial Dreams at the Interface
The Cyborg at the Dream Interface
Interpreting the AI Dream
Creating the Perfect ZombieThe Philosophy of Machine DreamingAnthropomorphism: Philosophies of AI Dreaming and Consciousness
Searching for Dreams in Other (Stranger) Places
Machine Consciousness
Forms of Machine Dreaming
The Antropomorphic Dream Machine