Watanabe M. From Biological to Artificial Consciousness: Neuroscientific Insights and Progress

Cham: Springer, 2022. — 180 p.The Mystery of Consciousness.
I Think, Therefore I Am.
Subjective Experience: The Ultimate Reduction of Consciousness.
The Fiction of the Visual World.
Imagine Being a Mole.
Seeing Things.
Visual Processing in the Human Brain Without Subjective Experience.
Subjective Experience Is a Privilege of the Conscious.
Neurons as the Source of Consciousness.
Research by Hodgkin and Huxley.
Cranking Out Hypotheses.
Are Neurons Connected? The Debate Between Golgi and Cajal.
Information Transmission Between Neurons.
Neuronal Interaction Through Neurotransmitters.
Neuron Thresholds.
The Brain Learns by Fiddling with Synapses.
You Are Nothing But a Pack of Neurons.
Pursuing the Shadows of Consciousness.
Neuronal Activity Accompanying Consciousness.
Binocular Rivalry.
Logothetis’s Search for Consciousness.
An Upheaval in the Science of Consciousness.
Hubel and Wiesel.
Neurons Conduct Telephone Surveys.
Where Are the Cherry Trees Blooming?
The Survey in the Brain.
Retinotopy in the Visual Cortex.
Hierarchy of Visual Areas and Response Properties of Neurons.
Generalization: Another Hierarchical Change in the Response Properties of Neurons.
Searching for the Seat of Consciousness.
The Battle of V1.
Information in the Primary Visual Cortex that Consciousness Cannot Access.
Binocular Rivalry in the Primary Visual Cortex.
The Difference Between Correlation and Causality.
NCC and Akira.
Pursuing NCC by Process of Elimination.
CFS: An Innovation in Consciousness Studies.
Consciousness Versus Attention.
Empire Strikes Back.
Neural Manipulation for Causal Investigation of Consciousness.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Revolutionary Tool.
The Yin and Yang of TMS.
Time Lag in Consciousness.
Subjective Back-Referral.
Does the Future Affect Consciousness?
What About Conscious Free Will?
Conscious Free Will is a Grand Illusion.
Motion Phosphenes and NCC.
The Difficulty of Using Manipulation Experiments to Search for NCC.
Process of Elimination Through Manipulation Experiments.
Optogenetics: A New Development in Manipulation Experiments.
Do Rats Experience Binocular Rivalry?
A New Hope: Visual Backward Masking.
Do Rats Experience Visual Backward Masking?
Do Mice Experience Visual Backward Masking?
Investigating NCC Through Optogenetics.
The Future of Neural Manipulation in Search of NCC.
The Quest for a Natural Law of Consciousness.
The Brain as a Neural Network.
Glimpses of Consciousness in Neural Networks.
Is NCC All There Is?
The Mill Argument.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness.
The Consciousness of a Thermostat.
Can Consciousness Actually Be Understood?
Natural Laws Are the Foundation of All Science.
Resistance to Natural Laws of Consciousness.
Bridging the Explanatory Gap and Solving the Hard Problem.
How Do We Verify Natural Laws of Consciousness?
Analysis by Synthesis.
Fading Qualia.
Digital Fading Qualia.
Philosophical Zombies Hinder Tests of Machine Consciousness.
Seeing for Ourselves.
Two Hemispheres, Two Consciousnesses.
Sperry Extracts the Right-Hemisphere’s Testimony.
Interhemispheric Communication in Cortical Hierarchy.
A Subjective Test for Machine Consciousness.
Is Consciousness Information or Algorithm?
Candidate Natural Laws of Consciousness.
Integrated Information Theory.
Preliminary Validation with the Proposed Test for Machine Consciousness.
The Problem with Equating Information and Consciousness.
Algorithms and Generative Models.
The Virtual Reality Within Our Brains.
Brain’s Virtual Reality During Wakefulness.
Generative Model as a Neural Implementation of Brain’s Inner Virtual Reality.
Towards Realistic Virtual Reality.
Will Generative Models Pass the Subjective Test for Machine Consciousness?
Explaining Time Lags in Consciousness with the Generative Model.
The Generative Model Explains Differential Subjective Experience Arising from Various Sensory Modalities.
Dual Aspect Theory of Generative Process.
Uploading Human Consciousness.
Viable Method for Mind Uploading.
Prospects for Machine Consciousness.
Complications in Perfecting a Digital Copy of Our Brains.
Constructing First a Neutrally Conscious Machine.
Prospects for an Invasive Brain–Machine Interface.
Possibilities for Machine–Brain Hemispheric Integration.
The Problem of Writing Information.
A New Type of BMI: Insertion of 2D Electrode Array into a Dissected Axonal Bundle.
Integration Between Artificial and Biological Hemispheres.
Waking Up in a Machine.
Transfer of Memory.
Bon Voyage!The Generative Model in Its Simplest Form.
Calculating Generative Error.
Backward Propagation of Errors.
Creating Rich Middle Layers Through Learning.