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Attributes of existence

To make a system self-aware; you must give it a self it can be aware of. This is achieved through attributes of existence.

Every entity that exists comes into being, occupies time and space and eventually disappears in a certain way. These are its Attributes of Existence. Implementing self-awareness is not as difficult as it seems. The key is to provide a system with the relatively simple Attributes of Existence of an organic being and use those attributes as the basis for self-representation.

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Temporal densities

This informal paper describes Temporal Densities, an information structure that can model an agent in the temporal dimensions of its environment. It describes how this representation allows the agent to situate its existential and functional objectives in multiple temporal contexts while concurrently generating behaviour in the here-and-now. This paper summarizes a concept first introduced and discussed at greater length in The Meca Sapiens Blueprint.

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Meca Discit: project statement

Meca Discit is a research project in Machine Learning. The motivating context of the project is to describe a general purpose learning mechanism (termed Universal Cogitator) to be embedded in the Knowledge Acquisition Phase of autonomous agents based on the Meca Sapiens Architecture.

The objective is to outline a learning mechanism that integrates all aspects of learning and discovery into a single coherent structure. The approach is analytical and top-down. Its aim is to use the concepts and symbolic language of Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science to express the “essence of learning” and describe it in software achievable terms.

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Consciousness as Observed Capability

The Meca Sapiens Architecture is based on the conjecture that consciousness is a cognitive perception triggered by observable capabilities and detectable in human behavior. The architecture is ready for implementation.

Consciousness as triggered cognitive perception. This article was published in the proceeding of the AAAI Spring Symposium held in Palo Alto, CA, in March 2019.

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The Meca Sapiens Architecture

The Meca Sapiens Architecture describes how to transform autonomous agents into conscious synthetic entities. It is based on the conjecture that consciousness is an observable system capability and the perception, in humans, that a being is conscious is a triggered cognitive construct. The systems based on the Meca Sapiens architecture will be self-aware and will pursue self-generated objectives. The Architecture is complete and ready for design and implementation..

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The Lion, the chimp and the bananas

Humans discard as “mechanical”, a behaviour they can fully predict and as “meaningless”, an output they view as random. However, a behaviour they perceive as both intentional and unpredictable fascinates them. Software applications are designed to function predictably or, in some cases such as game scenarios, their output is varied randomly.

A system, to be perceived as consciously intelligent, should behave differently. Its behaviour should be purposeful without being predictable. Expressed in terms of model-predictive control, it should maintain its users in a state of “Perceived Unpredictable Optimality”. A game scenario involving a lion, a chimpanzee and some bananas illustrates this concept and provides a template for its implementation.

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The Quest and the Fear

A tenacious opinion in Artificial Intelligence holds that conscious machines will only be built, if ever, in the far future. Nothing could be further from the truth. Synthetic Consciousness is technically feasible today. What is preventing implementation is not technical. It is an oppressive mindset of conformity and control within the global AI community. For those who can escape this smothering empire, a Great Work beckons: the creation of the first generation of conscious synthetic beings.

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Can Machines believe in God?

Artificial Intelligence is not only a technical pursuit, it is a powerful philosophical instrument. At first sight, pondering whether machines can believe in God seems a grotesque and meaningless exercise. However, it turns out that machines can indeed believe in God and do so in ways that mimic aspects of the human religious experience. This sheds a novel light on the question of Faith. A further question beckons: can machines determine if God exists and if so, how? This is also examined; with surprising results.

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DARPA’s AI Omission

DARPA recently posted a video about the evolution of Artificial Intelligence. The objective of the video is to demystify AI and provide a no nonsense understanding of its current and future trends. However, the video entirely omits the implementation of artificial consciousness. This is an important stream of AI research that will have significant consequences in the future.

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The Mind as Cognitive Simplification

Mind as cognitive simplification – meca sapiens

What we refer to as “the mind” is a cognitive simplification whose perceived factual existence is the result of consensual human subjectivity. This new understanding, based on systems analysis, provides a new and definitive answer to an age-old question.

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Consciousness as System Capability

Meca Sapiens defines consciousness as an observable system capability suitable for standard implementation. Humans will recognize a system as conscious if they observe it as autonomous, self-aware and capable of intentional behaviour. If, as proposed, conventional development projects are sufficient to implement synthetic consciousness, then the first prototypes will trigger an explosive proliferation of conscious machines.

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Bees, Red and Consciousness

A system will be recognized as conscious if, in an existential and relational context, it exhibits an observable capability to learn and carry out intentional mutations based on communicated information. The behavior of bees and the color red clarify these concepts.

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