Machine Consciousness is the study of consciousness in a biological, philosophical, mathematical and physical perspective and designing a model that can fit into a programmable system architecture. Prime objective of the study is to make the system architecture behave consciously like a biological model does. Present work has developed a feasible definition of consciousness, that characterizes consciousness with four parameters i.e., parasitic, symbiotic, self referral and reproduction. Present work has also developed a biologically inspired consciousness architecture that has following layers: quantum layer, cellular layer, organ layer and behavioral layer and traced the characteristics of consciousness at each layer. Finally, the work has estimated physical and algorithmic architecture to devise a system that can behave consciously.
How biological being are conscious? How this consciousness is organized? are few of the questions that are attempted in this section, by taking into consideration of various views from philosophy, physical science, biological science and mathematics. It clearly depict that, consciousness is the agent that is responsible for intelligent behavior or phenomenon. Now we will discuss about the various conceptualizations about consciousness.
Many phenomenon in the universe are not sufficiently explained by the scientific studies, but aptly explained by philosophy. Hence study of philosophy many a times gives much impetus to probe into the causality of the phenomenon and finally develop the model so as to apply for solving real life problems. Here our objective is to induct consciousness into the machine architecture, so that intelligence aspect of machine can be autonomous as in case of any living being. Even an ant is autonomously intelligent and do not require any external control for it’s survival or normal functioning. It is essential to probe into the causality of consciousness and logical schemata of consciousness for building a model inspired by this phenomenon. Once, the model is developed, it can be suitably fit into programmable machine architecture and can behave consciously. Here, the author have attempted to probe into the philosophy of consciousness, but found that frame of creation is highly required for understanding the concept of consciousness. Hence, I am depicting here the framework of creation for better appreciation of phenomenon of consciousness.
The whole creation is manifested through a well organized layers, that starts with the formless characteristics universe and ends at intelligent actions generated in a matter. All the layers have shown in the Fig 2. and narrated in the followed texts:
The whole creation is manifested and characterized by Universe(Brahmanda). As per the Oxford Dictionary “all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos” and as per Webster Dictionary “the whole body of things and phenomena observed or postulated”. Universe or Brahmanda is the prakriti or set of characteristics of whole matter and phenomenon, that exists in this universe.In brief, Universe is composed of Matter, Space, and Knowledge Base.
Knowledge base is the well defined, logically arranged set of instructions for execution of matters and various phenomenon..
Space is the universe of discourse or domain within which knowledge base is incident on matter.
Any thing that governs with the universal knowledge base and within a space of enactment is a matter.
Brahman is the instance of Brahmanda, Brahman has no such difference as it is one without a second, Brahman is indivisible as it is devoid of all differences, whether within itself, or from things of same clsss or from things of other classes(Veda) It is formless in essence(Veda) Before creation there was only Brahman which is existence itself on which whole creation is superimposed and percepted as existent(Chandogya Upanishad)
Brahman is wide spread and exists in all matter Brahman is formless in essence and when Brahman is incident on matter it gets the form, Brahman is responsible for consciousness in the matter Characteristics of Universe is also exists in each matter in the form of Brahman, hence they are coherence with the Brahmanda or Universe.
Consciousness is the is the incidence of Brahman in the matter, that creates the Prakriti or Characteristics of a matter. Consciousness is the layer in the framework of creation that is responsible for executing the universal knowledge base in a matter.
Consciousness can be classified into following levels:
Quantum Layer Compound Layer Cellular Layer Organ Layer Behavioral Layer At each lavel consciousness can execute the matter autonomously and can also gives rise to next layer of consciousness to create a higher level of matter. In fact consciousness is responsible for generating the feel of universe at matter, as well as feel of matter in the universe, hence creating the coherency between universe and matter. Following figure depicts the various levels of consciousness.
In this work, detail narration Cell level consciousness, Organ level and Behavioral Level is given. But, as currently work is in progress for quantum, compound level consciousness, hence I have not provided narration on quantum and compound level consciousness.
This is the layer just below consciousness, that hides the complexity of framework of creation from thought/chinta layer. Hence, thought process of an animate matter do not requires to realize about consciousness or above that layer for it’s normal functioning. Illusion layer also hides simple principles of Prakriti and deludes as a complex phenomenon. This layer is responsible for creation of various emotions such as: happiness, sad, anger, affections, infatuations etc. In brief, this layer creates the illusions of duality in the nature which is n
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