A semiotic perspective on the development of (artificial) consciousness

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

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

|This is a short version written for the conference proceedings of an original paper presented at the Fifth Nordic Conference on Artificial Intelligence held in Trondheim, Norway, 29-31 May 1995. The conference proceedings are obtainable 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, enlightenment, meaning
  • 2.1.The social constitution of meaning
  • 2.2.Knowledge as belief
  • 2.3.Belief, thought and action
  • 3.Biological foundations of consciousness
  • 4.Language and consciousness
  • 5.Systemic functional linguistics and the development of consciousness
  • 6.Developing artificial consciousness
  • 7.Postscript
  • 8.References: