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The Fall 2009 APA newsletter includes a discussion on Robot Consciousness featuring two papers, one by Stan Franklin, Bernard Baars, and Uma Ramamurthy, and other by Pentti Haikonen.

Journal of Mind Theory Rigor in Cognitive Science The UPM Autonomous Systems Lab (AsLab (http://www.aslab.org/)) has recently launched a new journal in the field of congnitive science...

Wakamaru, the communication robot by Mitshubishi. Wakamaru is a robot designed for human communication and interaction and its own "personality".

Center for Consciousness StudiesFall 2009Consciousness: The Web Course, andAdvanced Seminar: An Introduction to Mind and Brain

The 14th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held in Toronto, Canada from Thursday 24th Sunday 27th, June 2010.

International Journal of Social Robotics Social Robotics is the study of robots that are able to interact and communicate between themselves, with humans, and with the environment, within the social and cultural structure attached to its role.

Call for Papers for Special Issue of the Journal of AGI on Machine Consciousness We'd like to call your attention to the forthcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, on the subject of Machine Consciousness, for which the Call for Papers has just been released, and...

Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010April 12-17, 2010Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona Sponsored by:The Center for Consciousness Studies, The University of Arizonawww.consciousness.arizona.edu (http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/) The ninth biennial Tucson conference Toward a Science of...

A Scale for Measuring Machine Consciousness ConsScale (consscale/) is a tool for assessing the functional level of consciousness of a creature. It has been specifically designed for the evaluation of Machine Consciousness implementations...

Information Integration Theory of Consciousness According to this theory, consciousness corresponds to the capacity of a system to integrate information [1]. There are two main concepts which are central to this theory: differentiation and integration.

TNGS Theory of Neuronal Group Selection TNGS and the dynamic core hypothesis have been proposed by Gerald M. Edelman as an explanation for the neural correlates of consciousness. As its name indicates, the theory is based on the concept of selection.