Title
How can a robot have consciousness?
Abstract
This paper investigates human consciousness in comparison with a robots' internal state. On the basis of Husserlian phenomenology, nine requirements for a model of consciousness are proposed from different technical aspects: self, intentionality, anticipation, feedback process, certainty, embodiment, otherness, emotionality and chaos. Consciousness-based Architecture (CBA) for mobile robots was analyzed in comparison with the requirements proposed for a consciousness model. CBA, previously developed, is a software architecture with an evolutionary hierarchy of the relationship between consciousness and behavior. Experiments with this architecture loaded on two mobile robots explain the emergence of self, and some of the intentionality, anticipation, feedback process, embodiment and emotionality. Modification of CBA will be necessary to better explain the emergence of self in terms of the relationship between consciousness and behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1163/156855300741573
ADVANCED ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
consciousness,phenomenology,self,behavior,mobile robot
Intentionality,Phenomenology (philosophy),Anticipation,Cognitive science,Control engineering,Consciousness,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Software architecture,Robot,Hierarchy,Mobile robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
4
0169-1864
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.59
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tadashi Kitamura1166.98
Tomoko Tahara250.59
Ken'ichi Asami3165.92