A semiotic perspective on the development of (artificial) consciousness

 

Patrick John COPPOCK
The University of Trondheim,
College of Arts and Science
Department of Applied Linguistics
N-7055 Dragvoll

e-mail: patrick.coppock@hf.ntnu.no

[This is the original version of a paper presented at the Fifth Nordic Conference on Artificial Intelligence held in Trondheim, Norway, 29-31 May 1995. The short version that actually appeared in the conference proceedings is obtainable here and in print as:
A. Aamodt & J. Komorowski (eds.) SCAI '95, Proceedings of The Fifth Nordic Conference in Artificial Intelligence, Trondheim, Norway, May 29-31, 1995, Amsterdam, Oxford, Washington DC, Tokyo: IOS Press, 378-386.]
 

Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Consciousness
  3. Understanding
  4. Enlightenment and meaning
  5. Knowledge, belief and consciousness
  6. The biological bases of consciousness
  7. Systemic functional linguistics and consciousness
  8. Postscript
  9. References: