TY - JOUR
T1 - The operative mind
T2 - A functional, computational and modeling approach to machine consciousness
AU - Hernández, Carlos
AU - López, Ignacio
AU - Sanz, Ricardo
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - The functional capabilities that consciousness seems to provide to biological systems can supply valuable principles in the design of more autonomous and robust technical systems. These functional concepts keep a notable similarity to those underlying the notion of operating system in software engineering, which allows us to specialize the computer metaphor for the mind into that of the operating system metaphor for consciousness. In this article, departing from these ideas and a model-based theoretical framework for cognition, we present an architectural proposal for machine consciousness, called the Operative Mind. According to it, machine consciousness could be implemented as a set of services, in an operative system fashion, based on modeling of the own control architecture, that supervise the adequacy of the system architectural structure to the current objectives, triggering and managing adaptativity mechanisms.
AB - The functional capabilities that consciousness seems to provide to biological systems can supply valuable principles in the design of more autonomous and robust technical systems. These functional concepts keep a notable similarity to those underlying the notion of operating system in software engineering, which allows us to specialize the computer metaphor for the mind into that of the operating system metaphor for consciousness. In this article, departing from these ideas and a model-based theoretical framework for cognition, we present an architectural proposal for machine consciousness, called the Operative Mind. According to it, machine consciousness could be implemented as a set of services, in an operative system fashion, based on modeling of the own control architecture, that supervise the adequacy of the system architectural structure to the current objectives, triggering and managing adaptativity mechanisms.
KW - function
KW - Machine consciousness
KW - modeling
KW - operating system
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052228629&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1142/S1793843009000098
DO - 10.1142/S1793843009000098
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80052228629
SN - 1793-8430
VL - 1
SP - 83
EP - 98
JO - International Journal of Machine Consciousness
JF - International Journal of Machine Consciousness
IS - 1
ER -