See my newly released Genetic Programming system written in Python at:

http://www.paraschopra.com/sourcecode/GP/index.php

Do you like it? Any comments on GP on the whole?

The books which I’m reading, I’ve read, could read can be accessed at www.paraschopra.com/books.php

Since consciousness cannot be verified to be present in a machine therefore machine can ever be conscious but definitely it can aim to achieve something near about this consciousness. Let us call that state “Critical Consciousness”.

Thus the state which is very near about the real consciousness but not actually is consciousness, that term is called “Critical Consciousness”. This critical consciousness can definitely be achieved by the machines because we can only assume that a machine is conscious and that assumption can be very near to surety.

Ne comments?

The consciousness is not absolute but it is relative. The consciousness is how we perceive the world and respond to it. You are conscious because you feel your presence in the world through the environment’s reaction. Do you think a fish is conscious? And then, do you think a piece of steel is conscious? You would certainly say that a fish maybe conscious but steel can’t be. That’s because consciousness is not absolute but is relative. You consider fish as a conscious being because she responds to your action in some way, but a piece of metal doesn’t. The same might be happening with the metal. The metal might be considering itself as conscious but not us. In this way, existing software might be conscious in its own dimensions but not in ours.

See: http://www.dcetech.com/ieee/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2174&PN=1

Can consciousness arise in machines or software??? Is consciousness inherent in biology or just a bi-product of complex patterns modeled by the brain?? Are ants conscious of their existence??

Well my theory of consciousness goes something like this:

Consider that you want to code software which is conscious. Then there is no method through which you can verify that the software is conscious. This is because of mind-body problem. Even if the software considers itself as conscious (first person perspective), but when you’ll examine the internal processes of the software you’ll find nothing but code and data relating to that software (third person perspective). Just because of data and information, software can’t be regarded as conscious because if regarded then every existing software would be conscious. In case, that specific software tries to convince you that he/she/it is conscious, you would probably assume but not be 100% sure that he/she/it is conscious because on reexamining it would still be code and information only and nothing new. Therefore you could only assume that the software is conscious and can never really be sure that the system actually considers itself as conscious.

This law states that “The consciousness, in system(s) other than the system itself, cannot be verified it can only be assumed to be present.”

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Consider that you want to code software which is conscious. Then there is no method through which you can verify that the software is conscious. This is because of mind-body problem. Even if the software considers itself as conscious (first person perspective), but when you’ll examine the internal processes of the software you’ll find nothing but code and data relating to that software (third person perspective). Just because of data and information, software can’ be regarded as conscious because if regarded then every existing software would be conscious. In case, that specific software tries to convince you that he/she/it is conscious, you would probably assume but not be 100% sure that he/she/it is conscious because on reexamining it would still be code and information only and nothing new. Therefore you could only assume that the software is conscious and can never really be sure that the system actually considers itself as conscious.
This law states “The consciousness, in system(s) other than the system itself, cannot be verified it can only be assumed to be present.”