{"id":100496,"date":"2020-01-04T19:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T03:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/rethinking-consciousness-a-scientific-theory-of-subjective-experience"},"modified":"2020-01-04T19:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T03:21:54","slug":"rethinking-consciousness-a-scientific-theory-of-subjective-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/rethinking-consciousness-a-scientific-theory-of-subjective-experience","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rethinking-consciousness-a-scientific-theory-of-subjective-experience3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in mind uploading, I have a book that I highly recommend. <i>Rethinking Consciousness<\/i> is a book by Michael S. A. Graziano, who is a Princeton University professor of psychology and neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>Early in his book Graziano writes a short summary:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis book, however, is written entirely for the general reader. In it, I attempt to spell out, as simply and clearly as possible, a promising scientific theory of consciousness \u2014 one that can apply equally to biological brains and artificial machines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The theory is Attention Schema Theory.<\/p>\n<p>I found this work compelling because one of the main issues in mind uploading is how do you make an inanimate object (like a robot or a computer) conscious? Graziano\u2019s Attention Schema Theory provides a methodology.<\/p>\n<p>After reading the book, be sure to read the Appendix, in which he writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, it serves as a tutorial on the attention schema theory. The underlying logic of the theory will be described in its simplest form. Second, I hope that the exercise will show engineers a general path forward for artificial consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/rethinking-consciousness-a-scientific-theory-of-subjective-experience\">Continue reading \u201cRethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re interested in mind uploading, I have a book that I highly recommend. Rethinking Consciousness is a book by Michael S. A. Graziano, who is a Princeton University professor of psychology and neuroscience. Early in his book Graziano writes a short summary: \u201cThis book, however, is written entirely for the general reader. In it, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}