SELF-AWARE ROBOTS : on the path to machine consciousness.

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Story of Robots Chapter 3: Story of the Human Brain Chapter 4: Human Consciousness and the Mind 4.1: Human Thought and the Turing Machine 4.2: Language and Formal Logic 4.3: Language and Chomsky 4.4: Mind–Body Dualism of Descartes 4.5: Behaviorism and Cognitism 4.6: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 4.7: Phenomenology of Embodiment 4.8: Mechanical Systems without Representation 4.9: Qualia and Mirror Neurons 4.10: Affordance and Autopoiesis Theory 4.11: Embodied Cognitive Science and Symbol Grounding Problem 4.12: More Knowledge about Consciousness and the Mind 4.13: Summary and Observations Chapter 5: Professor Valentino Braitenberg’s Vehicles 5.1: Braitenberg’s Vehicles 1 through 4 5.2: Robot with a Brain 5.3: Idea of an Evolutionary Robot 5.4: Vehicles 7 through 10 with Associative Concept 5.5: Robot with a Sequential Concept 5.6: Vehicle 12 5.7: Vehicle 13 5.8: Vehicle 14 5.9: Summary and Observations Chapter 6: Professor Rodney Brooks’ Robots Chapter 7: Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Evolution 7.1: Neural Networks 7.1.1: Hebb’s Rule 7.1.2: Single-Layer Neural Network and Delta Rule 7.1.3: Feed-Forward Network and Back Propagation Method 7.1.4: Recurrent Neural Networks and Their Functions 7.1.5: Summary and Observations 7.2: Theory of Robot Evolution 7.2.1: Machine Evolution Approach 7.2.2: Summary and Observations 7.3: Other Notable ANN Technologies 7.3.1: Deep Learning 7.3.2: Self-Organizing Maps 7.3.3: Summary and Observations Chapter 8: Machine Consciousness 8.1: Walter’s Turtle 8.1.1: Summary and Observations 8.2: Kitamura’s Robot 8.2.1: Summary and Observations 8.3: Jun Tani’s Robot 8.3.1: Summary and Observations 8.4: Mitsuo Kawato’s Examples 8.4.1: Summary and Observations 8.5: Cynthia Lynn Breazeal’s Kismet 8.5.1: Summary and Observations Chapter 9: New Architecture of Robot Consciousness and the Robot Mind 9.1: Introduction 9.1.1: Research on Consciousness and Cognitism 9.1.2: Husserl’s Phenomenology 9.1.3: Definition of Consciousness 9.1.4: Features of Consciousness 9.1.5: Important Research Examples Related to Consciousness 9.2: Proposed Concept Model of Consciousness 9.2.1: Artificial Consciousness and Design of the Mind 9.2.2: Expectations for a New Paradigm 9.2.3: Where Does Consciousness Come From? 9.2.4: How Do We Define Consciousness? 9.2.5: Consciousness Is Generated by Consistency of Cognition and Behavior 9.3: My Standpoint 9.3.1: New Materialism 9.3.2: Connectionism 9.3.3: Cognitism and Representation 9.3.4: Not Emergent 9.3.5: Avoiding Infinite Retreat 9.3.6: Quantum Consciousness 9.4: Computational Model of the Consciousness Module 9.4.1: Overview of Computation Model 9.4.2: MoNAD Functions 9.4.3: Investigating Husserl’s 10 Properties 9.5: Discriminating the Self from Others Using the Function of Visual Imitation 9.6: Solution of the Symbol Grounding Problem 9.7: Consciousness System 9.7.1: Subconsciousness and Explicit Consciousness 9.7.2: Relationship between Reason and Feelings 9.8: Where Do Qualia Come From? 9.9: Problem of Free Will 9.10: Summary and Observations Chapter 10: Physical Demonstration of Successful Mirror Image Cognition by a Robot 10.1: Introduction 10.2: What Is Mirror Image Cognition? 10.3: Robots for Mirror Image Cognition Experiments 10.4: On the Development of a Conscious Robot 10.5: Mirror Image Cognition Experiments with a Conscious Robot 10.5.1: A Robot with an Embedded Conscious System 10.5.2: The Experiments 10.5.3: Results of Experiments and Observation 10.6: Why Are the Coincidence Rates Different? 10.7: Summary and Consideration 10.8: Investigations and Prospects 10.8.1: An Elucidation 10.8.2: Mirror Box Therapy 10.8.3: Mirror Stage 10.8.4: Can Self Robot Discriminate Itself from Any Other Robots? 10.8.5: Mysteries of Illusions of Reality 10.8.6: Study of Human Brain Using Mirror Image Cognition Robot Chapter 11: Further Developments 11.1: A Robot Recognizes the Unknown 11.1.1.: Detailed Considerations on MoNAD 11.1.2: Results of Experiment and Discussion 11.1.3: Conclusion 11.2: A Self-Aware Robot 11.2.1: Discussions for Experiments 11.2.2: Experiments 11.2.3: Results and Considerations 11.2.4: Conclusion 11.3: A Robot with Episodic Memory 11.3.1: Model of Episodic Memory and Expectation 11.3.2: Experiment Using a Robot 11.3.3: Conclusion 11.4: A Pavlov Robot 11.4.1: Configuration of the Conscious System 11.4.2: Unconditioned and Conditioned Responses in a Robot 11.4.3: Construction of an Artificial Conscious System 11.4.4: Experiment with a Robot 11.4.5: Conclusion 11.5: Color Vision Capabilities of a Conscious Robot 11.5.1: Conscious System Used in This Experiment 11.5.2: Color Vision Capability Experiment and Results 11.5.3: Conclusion 11.6: Absolute Pleasantness 11.7: Conflict of Concepts and Rubin’s Vase Model 11.8: Toward an Elucidation of Self-Development and Advanced Mental Illness 11.9: Summary and Consideration Chapter 12: Conclusions Afterword to the First Edition Afterword 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 Bibliography Index