Logical Evaluation of Consciousness: For Incorporating Consciousness into Machine Architecture

TL;DR

This paper proposes a formal definition and a layered architecture inspired by biology and quantum physics to enable machine systems to exhibit conscious behavior.

Contribution

It introduces a novel definition of consciousness with four parameters and designs a multi-layered architecture inspired by biological and quantum principles.

Findings

Defined consciousness using parasitic, symbiotic, self referral, and reproduction parameters.

Developed a layered architecture including quantum, cellular, organ, and behavioral layers.

Estimated physical and algorithmic frameworks for conscious machine behavior.

Abstract

Machine Consciousness is the study of consciousness in a biological, philosophical, mathematical and physical perspective and designing a model that can fit into a programmable system architecture. Prime objective of the study is to make the system architecture behave consciously like a biological model does. Present work has developed a feasible definition of consciousness, that characterizes consciousness with four parameters i.e., parasitic, symbiotic, self referral and reproduction. Present work has also developed a biologically inspired consciousness architecture that has following layers: quantum layer, cellular layer, organ layer and behavioral layer and traced the characteristics of consciousness at each layer. Finally, the work has estimated physical and algorithmic architecture to devise a system that can behave consciously.