A new approach that identifies necessary design requirements for neural machinery that one could claim is conscious is presented. Usually such designs stem from a third-person inference of suitable mechanisms which are thought to underpin conscious behaviour. The novelty here comes from using the first person (introspection) to identify a set of necessary axiomatic principles that the neuro-machinery of an agent must deliver and turn these into architectural design requirements for a conscious system. It also leads to the major conclusion that a full description of the neural mechanisms is also a full description of what it is to be conscious.
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Aleksander, I., & Dunmall, B. (2003). Necessary first-person axioms of neuroconsciousness. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 2686, pp. 630–637). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44868-3_80
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