TOCAIS 2019
Towards Conscious AI Systems

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Short and Position Papers

• Disorders of Artificial Awareness
  Thomas Parr , Danijar Hafner , Karl J. Friston
• Testing for Synthetic Consciousness: The ACT, The Chip Test, The Unintegrated Chip Test, and the Extended Chip Test
  Edwin Turner , Susan Schneider
• Homeostatically Motivated Intelligence for Feeling Machines
  Kingson Man , Antonio Damasio
• Artificial Agency Requires Attention: The Case of Intentional Action
  Paul Bello , Kevin O'Neill , Will Bridewell
• Introspective Learning, Reasoning, and Decision Making in NARS
  Pei Wang , Xiang Li , Patrick Hammer
• To Play with Feeling? The Opportunity of Aesthetics in Computational Musical Creativity
  Geraint A. Wiggins
• Dissociating Intelligence from Consciousness in Artificial Systems – Implications of Integrated Information Theory
  Graham Findlay , William Marshall , Larissa Albantakis , William Mayner , Christof Koch , Giulio Tononi
• Towards Information-Theoretic Limits of the Global Neuronal Workspace Architecture
  Lav R. Varshney
• Towards Artificial Phronesis : Some Potential First Steps Along the Road to Moral Agency Using Case Studies
  John Murray

Regular Papers

• Evolution of Conscious AI in the Hive: Outline of a Rationale and Framework for Study
  David Sahner
• Dynamical Emergence of Phenomenal Consciousness: an Outline of a Theory
  Roy Moyal , Shimon Edelman
• AI Consciousness
  Piotr Bołtuć
• Consciousness as Observed Capability - A Triggered Perception Detectable in Behavior
  Jean E. Tardy
• Consciousness and Conscious Machines: What’s At Stake?
  Damien Patrick Williams
• Four Preconditions for Solving MC4 Machine Consciousness
  David Gamez
• Self-Awareness Implied in Human and Robot Intentional Action
  Cristiano Castelfranchi , Rino Falcone
• A Neurobiologically Inspired Plan Towards Cognitive Machines
  Jeffrey L. Krichmar
• No Brainer: Why Consciousness is Neither a Necessary nor Sufficient Condition for AI Ethics
  David J. Gunkel
• To Build Conscious Machines, Focus on General Intelligence: A Framework for the Assessment of Consciousness in Biological and Artificial Systems
  Henry Shevlin
• The Role of Consciousness and Artificial Phronēsis in AI Ethical Reasoning
  John P. Sullins
• Accounting for the Minimal Self and the Narrative Self: Robotics Experiments Using Predictive Coding
  Jun Tani
• Why Artificial Consciousness Matters
  Matthew Crosby
• Inner Speech for a Self-Conscious Robot
  Arianna Pipitone , Francesco Lanza , Valeria Seidita , Antonio Chella
• Grounding Concepts as Emerging Clusters in Multiple Conceptual Spaces
  Roberto Pirrone , Antonio Chella
• A Physicalist Causally Oriented Foundation For a Conscious Machine Based on the Spread Mind
  Riccardo Manzotti
• A Conscious AI System Based on Recurrent Neural Networks Applying Dynamic Information Equilibrium
  Yasuo Kinouchi , Kenneth James Mackin , Pitoyo Hartono
• Conscious Enactive Computation
  Daniel Estrada
• Artificial Pain: Empathy, Morality, and Ethics as a Developmental Process of Consciousness
  Minoru Asada
• Using Tononi Phi to Measure Consciousness of a Cognitive System While Reading and Conversing
  Matthew Iklé , Ben Goertzel , Misgana Bayetta , George Sellman , Comfort Cover , Jennifer Allgeier , Robert Smith , Morris Sowards , Dylan Schuldberg , Man Hin Leung , Amen Belayneh , Gina Smith , David Hanson
• Grounded Metacognitive Architectures For Machine Consciousness
  Ron Chrisley
• Operationalizing Consciousness
  Don Perlis , Justin Brody
• Consciousness and Understanding in Autonomous Systems
  Ricardo Sanz , Julita Bermejo-Alonso
• Artificial Phenomenology for Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
  Lorijn Zaadnoordijk , Tarek R. Besold
• Arousal and Awareness in a Humanoid Robot
  Christian Balkenius , Trond A. Tjøstheim , Birger Johansson
• Introducing Λ for Measuring Cognitive Consciousness
  Selmer Bringsjord , Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu
• Towards a Computable & Harnessable Model of Consciousness
  Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu , Selmer Bringsjord
• Can a Virtual Entity Support Real Consciousness, and How Might This Lead to Conscious Robots?
  Owen Holland
• Phenomenal Experience and the Perceptual Binding State
  Joscha Bach
• Inferring and Conveying Intentionality: Beyond Numerical Rewards to Logical Intentions
  Susmit Jha , John Rushby
• Reconsidering the “Artificial,” the “Intelligent,” and the “Conscious” in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Consciousness through American Pragmatism
  Johnathan Charles Flowers
• Time and (Un)conscious Processes - Predictive Anticipatory Activity and Potential Applications
  Julia Mossbridge
• Independent Core Observer Model (ICOM) Theory of Consciousness as Implemented in the ICOM Cognitive Architecture and the Associated Consciousness Measures
  David J. Kelley , Mathew A. Twymon
• Strong and Weak AI: Deweyan Considerations
  Johnathan Charles Flowers
• A Collective Intelligence Research Platform for Cultivating Benevolent “Seed” Artificial Intelligences
  Mark R. Waser