Encyclopedia of Consciousness [electronic resource] : Two-Volume Set
Banks, William P.
Banks, William PContributor
Credo Reference (Firm)
Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; Boston, Mass. : Elsevier,
2009
Consciousness has long been a subject of interest in philosophy and religion but only relatively recently has it become subject to scientific investigation.  Now, more than ever before, we are beginning to understand this mental state.  Developmental psychologists understand when we first develop a sense of self; neuropsychologists see which parts of the brain activate when we think about ourselves and which parts of the brain control that awareness.  Cognitive scientists have mapped the circuitry that allows machines to have some form of self awareness, and neuroscientists investigate similar
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e9780123738646v1; Front Cover; Encyclopedia of Consciousness; Copyright Page; Foreword; Foreword Biography; Preface; Editor-In-Chief; Editorial Board; Contributors; How to use the Encyclopedia; Contents; VOLUME 1; Aesthetics and the Experience of Beauty; Introduction; Aesthetic Perception; Aesthetics and Neurophysiology; Consciousness and Aesthetic Experience; Conclusion; Suggested Readings; Biographical Sketch; Suggested Readings; Consciousness as a Product of Natural Selection; A Methodological Framework for the Study of Animal Consciousness
Human Consciousness Studies as Benchmarks for Investigating Animal ConsciousnessTypes of Evidence for Animal Consciousness; Evidence for Consciousness in Nonhuman Species; Birds and Mammals: Evolutionary Homology Lost and Found; Cephalopods: An Alien Intelligence and a Challenge for Consciousness Research; Conclusion: Complex Nervous Systems, Evolutionary Convergence, and Universal Properties of Consciousness; Acknowledgments; Suggested Readings; Biographical Sketch; Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness; Glossary; Introduction; An Overview of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness ResearchThe Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Theories about Consciousness; Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Research on Consciousness; The Debate about Consciousness in Artificial Systems; Positive Theories about Machine Consciousness; Naturalistic accounts of consciousness; Information theories of consciousness; Cognitive theories; Other theories; Criticisms of Machine Consciousness; The hard problem of consciousness; The Chinese room; Consciousness is not algorithmic; The limitations of artificial intelligence
Research on Machine ConsciousnessCurrent Research; Machines with the external behavior associated with consciousness; Machines with the cognitive characteristics associated with consciousness; Machines with an architecture that is claimed to bea cause or correlate of human consciousness; Phenomenally conscious machines; Future Developments; Testing for Consciousness in Artificial Systems; Behavioral Tests; Turing tests; Other behavioral measures; Internal Architectural Tests; Ethical and Legal Issues; Conclusions; Suggested Readings; Attention: Change Blindness and Inattentional Blindness
IntroductionChange Blindness; Background; Conceptual Distinctions; Change versus motion; Change versus difference; Experimental Approaches and Results; Type of task; Type of response; Attentional manipulation; Perceptual set; Implications for Perceptual Mechanisms; Visual attention and short-term memory; Scene perception; Inattentional Blindness; Background; Conceptual Distinctions; Expression versus suppression; Restricted versus unrestricted effects; Experimental Approaches and Results; Type of task; Type of response; Attentional manipulation; Perceptual set
Implications for Perceptual Mechanisms
Consciousness has long been a subject of interest in philosophy and religion but only relatively recently has it become subject to scientific investigation.  Now, more than ever before, we are beginning to understand this mental state.  Developmental psychologists understand when we first develop a sense of self; neuropsychologists see which parts of the brain activate when we think about ourselves and which parts of the brain control that awareness.  Cognitive scientists have mapped the circuitry that allows machines to have some form of self awareness, and neuroscientists investigate similar
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