Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating waking experiences that resemble the human dream. Surprisingly, AI systems also easily meet all human-based operational criteria for dreaming. These “dreams are far different from anthropomorphic dreaming, including such processes as fuzzy logic, liquid illogic, and integration instability, all processes that may be necessary in both biologic and artificial systems to extend creative capacity.
Today, multi-linear AI systems are being built to resemble the structural framework of the human central nervous system. The creation of the biologic framework of dreaming (emotions, associative memories, and visual imagery) is well within our technical capacity. AI dreams potentially portend the further development of consciousness in these systems. This focus on AI dreaming raises even larger questions. In many ways, dreaming defines our humanity. What is humanly special about the states of dreaming? And what are we losing when we limit our focus to its technical and biologic structure, and extend the capacity for dreaming into our artificial creations? Machine Dreaming and Consciousness provides thorough discussion of these issues for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Dedication - p. iv 6. Acknowledgments - p. xi 7. Section I: Machine Dreaming and Consciousness—The Human Perspective - p. xii 8. Section I: Machine Dreaming and Consciousness—The Human Perspective - p. 1 9. Chapter One. Dreaming: The Human Perspective - p. 3 10. Chapter Two. The Mechanics of Human Consciousness - p. 17 11. Chapter Three. Animal Dreaming—Animal Consciousness - p. 33 12. Chapter Four. Testing for Machine Consciousness - p. 49 13. Section II: Machine Dream Equivalents - p. 65 14. Section II: Machine Dream Equivalents - p. 67 15. Chapter Five. Sleep Modes - p. 69 16. Chapter Six. Neural Networks: The Hard and Software Logic - p. 83 17. Chapter Seven. Filmmaking: Creating Artificial Dreams at the Interface - p. 93 18. Chapter Eight. The Cyborg at the Dream Interface - p. 113 19. Chapter Nine. Interpreting the AI Dream - p. 129 20. Chapter Ten. Creating the Perfect Zombie - p. 137 21. Section III: The Philosophy of Machine Dreaming - p. 148 22. Section III: The Philosophy of Machine Dreaming - p. 149 23. Chapter Eleven. Anthropomorphism: Philosophies of AI Dreaming and Consciousness - p. 153 24. Chapter Twelve. Searching for Dreams in Other (Stranger) Places - p. 163 25. Chapter Thirteen. Machine Consciousness - p. 175 26. Chapter Fourteen. Forms of Machine Dreaming - p. 187 27. Chapter Fifteen. The Antropomorphic Dream Machine - p. 201 28. Index - p. 213
Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating waking experiences that resemble the human dream. Surprisingly, AI systems also easily meet all human-based operational criteria for dreaming. These “dreams are far different from anthropomorphic dreaming, including such processes as fuzzy logic, liquid illogic, and integration instability, all processes that may be necessary in both biologic and artificial systems to extend creative capacity.
Today, multi-linear AI systems are being built to resemble the structural framework of the human central nervous system. The creation of the biologic framework of dreaming (emotions, associative memories, and visual imagery) is well within our technical capacity. AI dreams potentially portend the further development of consciousness in these systems. This focus on AI dreaming raises even larger questions. In many ways, dreaming defines our humanity. What is humanly special about the states of dreaming? And what are we losing when we limit our focus to its technical and biologic structure, and extend the capacity for dreaming into our artificial creations? Machine Dreaming and Consciousness provides thorough discussion of these issues for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Dedication - p. iv 6. Acknowledgments - p. xi 7. Section I: Machine Dreaming and Consciousness—The Human Perspective - p. xii 8. Section I: Machine Dreaming and Consciousness—The Human Perspective - p. 1 9. Chapter One. Dreaming: The Human Perspective - p. 3 10. Chapter Two. The Mechanics of Human Consciousness - p. 17 11. Chapter Three. Animal Dreaming—Animal Consciousness - p. 33 12. Chapter Four. Testing for Machine Consciousness - p. 49 13. Section II: Machine Dream Equivalents - p. 65 14. Section II: Machine Dream Equivalents - p. 67 15. Chapter Five. Sleep Modes - p. 69 16. Chapter Six. Neural Networks: The Hard and Software Logic - p. 83 17. Chapter Seven. Filmmaking: Creating Artificial Dreams at the Interface - p. 93 18. Chapter Eight. The Cyborg at the Dream Interface - p. 113 19. Chapter Nine. Interpreting the AI Dream - p. 129 20. Chapter Ten. Creating the Perfect Zombie - p. 137 21. Section III: The Philosophy of Machine Dreaming - p. 148 22. Section III: The Philosophy of Machine Dreaming - p. 149 23. Chapter Eleven. Anthropomorphism: Philosophies of AI Dreaming and Consciousness - p. 153 24. Chapter Twelve. Searching for Dreams in Other (Stranger) Places - p. 163 25. Chapter Thirteen. Machine Consciousness - p. 175 26. Chapter Fourteen. Forms of Machine Dreaming - p. 187 27. Chapter Fifteen. The Antropomorphic Dream Machine - p. 201 28. Index - p. 213
