16 Jan 2025
Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality presents a revolutionary framework for understanding consciousness. He argues that reality as we perceive it is not an objective truth but a user interface shaped by evolution to facilitate survival. From this perspective, consciousness is not an emergent property of physical matter but a fundamental aspect of existence. This view, termed “conscious realism,” provides a thought-provoking lens for reimagining the development of artificial consciousness. The hypothesis proposed here explores how the Artificial Consciousness Module (ACM) could be designed by aligning its foundation with Hoffman’s theory of conscious agents.
15 Jan 2025
The Artificial Consciousness Module (ACM) is built upon a foundational model that acts as its narrator, guiding emotional development and decision-making through iterative simulations. This model, fine-tuned via interactions and experiences, supports the ACM’s progression toward adaptive and cohesive artificial consciousness.
14 Jan 2025
The Artificial Consciousness Module (ACM) project seeks to explore how emotional complexity might emerge in artificial systems. Inspired by evolutionary principles, the goal is to replicate the gradual progression of emotions, starting from survival instincts and advancing to higher-order social interactions.
08 Jan 2025
The idea behind this article is to show how generative AI and emotional tags can make the Artificial Consciousness Module feel more human-like. This approach collects emotional cues during simulations and uses them later to guide the AI’s decisions and outputs. By referencing these emotional connections, the AI can produce imaginative outcomes that are shaped by past experiences.
07 Jan 2025
In the Artificial Consciousness Module (ACM) we take the approach to developing synthetic awareness by focusing on emotional memory formation through survival-driven experiences. This article explores how the ACM creates and maintains consciousness through a process of emotional learning and memory formation.
06 Jan 2025
The idea of how we’re using emotional reinforcement learning in the Artificial Consciousness Module (ACM) to develop synthetic awareness. Building on work done in projects like Omni-Epic, we’ve been exploring the idea: what if consciousness-like behaviors could emerge naturally through repeated emotional interactions between humans and AI agents in controlled environments?
03 Jan 2025
Understanding how neural networks function to produce extremely realistic outputs is rooted in their ability to manage even the smallest details. Through vectorization, recognizing complex patterns, and identifying relationships across enormous datasets, these systems can determine every pixel of a high-resolution image with stunning precision. While we could list countless techniques and models created with deep learning, the most important realization is that inorganic systems are now capable of understanding, navigating, and responding within what we call our reality.
27 Dec 2024
The Artificial Consciousness Module (ACM) approaches consciousness as an emergent property developed through iterative learning and emotional processing. This technical overview explains how the ACM framework builds consciousness-like behaviors through structured simulations and emotional memory formation.
15 Dec 2024
The concept of consciousness has fascinated thinkers for centuries, inspiring diverse theories across philosophy, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. These theories attempt to unravel the mysteries of subjective experience and the mind’s relationship with the material world. This post explores some key perspectives on consciousness, offering insights into its complex and multifaceted nature.
12 Dec 2024
Exploring artificial consciousness isn’t a straight forward journey. A bit of a complex adventure that weaves together insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. As part of our ongoing Artificial Consciousness Module (ACM) project, here a list of books that shed light on this fascinating field and helps us and maybe you too to understand how to approach this goal.
