Seminar · Consciousness
A Framework for a Conscious AI: Viewing Consciousness through a Theoretical Computer Science Lens
Lenore and Manuel Blum · Carnegie Mellon University
Fri, Aug 5, 2022 · 17:00 UTC
We examine consciousness from the perspective of theoretical computer science (TCS), a branch of mathematics concerned with understanding the underlying principles of computation and complexity, including the implications and surprising consequences of resource limitations. We propose a formal TCS model, the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM). The CTM is influenced by Alan Turing's simple yet powerful model of computation, the Turing machine (TM), and by the global workspace theory (GWT) of consciousness originated by cognitive neuroscientist Bernard Baars and further developed by him, Stanislas D