Takeno J. Self-aware Robots: on the path to machine consciousness

Sent-Louis: Jenny Stanford Pub., 2022. — 437 p.Story of Robots.
Story of the Human Brain.
Human Consciousness and the Mind.
Human Thought and the Turing Machine.
Language and Formal Logic.
Language and Chomsky.
Mind–Body Dualism of Descartes.
Behaviorism and Cognitism.
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.
Phenomenology of Embodiment.
Mechanical Systems without Representation.
Qualia and Mirror Neurons.
Affordance and Autopoiesis Theory.
Embodied Cognitive Science and Symbol Grounding Problem.
More Knowledge about Consciousness and the Mind.
Summary and Observations.
Professor Valentino Braitenberg’s Vehicles.
Braitenberg’s Vehicles through.
Robot with a Brain.
The idea of an Evolutionary Robot.
Vehicles through with Associative Concept.Robot with a Sequential Concept.
Vehicle.
Vehicle.
Vehicle.
Summary and Observations.
Professor Rodney Brooks’ Robots.
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Evolution.
Neural Networks.Hebb’s Rule.
Single-Layer Neural Network and Delta Rule.
Feed-Forward Network and Back Propagation Method.
Recurrent Neural Networks and Their Functions.
Summary and Observations.Theory of Robot Evolution.
Machine Evolution Approach.
Summary and Observations.
Other Notable ANN Technologies.
Deep Learning.
Self-Organizing Maps.
Summary and Observations.
Machine Consciousness.
Walter’s Turtle.
Summary and Observations.
Kitamura’s Robot.
Summary and Observations.
Jun Tani’s Robot.
Summary and Observations.
Mitsuo Kawato’s Examples.
Summary and Observations.
Cynthia Lynn Breazeal’s Kismet.
Summary and Observations.
New Architecture of Robot Consciousness and the Robot Mind.Research on Consciousness and Cognitivism.
Husserl’s Phenomenology.
Definition of Consciousness.
Features of Consciousness.
Important Research Examples Related to Consciousness.
Proposed Concept Model of Consciousness.
Artificial Consciousness and Design of the Mind.
Expectations for a New Paradigm.
Where Does Consciousness Come From?
How Do We Define Consciousness?
Consciousness Is Generated by Consistency of Cognition and Behavior.
My Standpoint.
New Materialism.
Connectionism.
Cognitism and Representation.
Not Emergent.
Avoiding Infinite Retreat.
Quantum Consciousness.
Computational Model of the Consciousness Module.
Overview of Computation Model.
MoNAD Functions.
Investigating Husserl’s Properties.
Discriminating the Self from Others Using the Function of Visual Imitation.
Solution of the Symbol Grounding Problem.
Consciousness System.
Subconsciousness and Explicit Consciousness.
Relationship between Reason and Feelings.
Where Do Qualia Come From?
Problem of Free Will.
Summary and Observations.
Physical Demonstration of Successful Mirror Image Cognition by a Robot.What Is Mirror Image Cognition?
Robots for Mirror Image Cognition Experiments.
On the Development of a Conscious Robot.
Mirror Image Cognition Experiments with a.
Conscious Robot.
A Robot with an Embedded Conscious System.
The Experiments.
Results of Experiments and Observation.
Why Are the Coincidence Rates Different?
Summary and Consideration.
Investigations and Prospects.
An Elucidation.
Mirror Box Therapy.
Mirror Stage.
Can Self Robot Discriminate Itself from Any Other Robots?
Mysteries of Illusions of Reality.
Study of Human Brain Using Mirror Image Cognition Robot.
Further Developments.
A Robot Recognizes the Unknown.
Detailed Considerations on MoNAD.
Results of Experiment and Discussion.A Self-Aware Robot.
Discussions for Experiments.
Experiments.
Results and Considerations.A Robot with Episodic Memory.
Model of Episodic Memory and Expectation.
Experiment Using a Robot.A Pavlov Robot.
Configuration of the Conscious System.
Unconditioned and Conditioned Responses in a Robot.
Construction of an Artificial Conscious System.
Experiment with a Robot.Color Vision Capabilities of a Conscious Robot.
Conscious System Used in This Experiment.
Color Vision Capability Experiment and Results.Absolute Pleasantness.
Conflict of Concepts and Rubin’s Vase Model.
Toward an Elucidation of Self-Development and Advanced Mental Illness.
Summary and Consideration.Afterward to the First Edition.
Afterward to the Second Edition.
Appendix A Author’s Response to Reactions to Discovery News.
Appendix B On the Safety and Ethics of Robots.
Appendix C Quotation from Discovery News.