The Cognitive Architecture for Artificial Consciousness: Machine Mental States

Abstract

In recent years, a classic problem regarding designing of artificial minds embedded with synthetic consciousness has resurfaced in the tune of; 1) building a machine or robots that would closely mimic human behavior, and 2) the problem of embodiment of consciousness in artificial forms in such entities. These two problems boil down to the pure consideration as well of standardization of another aspect- the design concepts; of whether they would look-alike human beings in artificial flesh and skin, or rather be designed entirety as original architecture having shape-implicit forms of embodied cognition which could stand as true peers of human race. The first problem is to deal with the art and science of imitating human behavior, whereas, the subsequent problems should specifically deal with the predicament of abstraction and embodiment of mental attributions primarily, consciousness in machines. Whilst the final dilemma could be the consideration of some standard design models that would likely reflect the nature of such embodied consciousness. In such endeavor, I discuss both the design approach to imitate human abilities in machines as well, the modeling of human consciousness in robots within some relational framework for orientation of mental attributions in such sense that would satisfy evolution of robot consciousness.