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Edelman's Steps Toward a Conscious Artifact

Jeffrey L. Krichmar

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Abstract

In 2006, during a meeting of a working group of scientists in La Jolla, California at The Neurosciences Institute (NSI), Gerald Edelman described a roadmap towards the creation of a Conscious Artifact. As far as I know, this roadmap was not published. However, it did shape my thinking and that of many others in the years since that meeting. This short paper, which is based on my notes taken during the meeting, describes the key steps in this roadmap. I believe it is as groundbreaking today as it was more than 15 years ago.

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7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
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q-bio.NCNeurons and Cognition cs.AIArtificial Intelligence

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