Beyond consciousness?

A discussion is given as to the possibility of creating machines which have more powerful consciousnesses than our own. The approach employs, in particular, a brain-based model of human consciousness. From that model a general discussion is developed of the need for a unique central control system in any machine to enable it to be efficient in decision-making. The resulting features of the machine’s consciousness, as the highest order controller, is seen to need to be similar to our own. We conclude that beyond consciousness very likely lies only similar consciousnesses.

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co.