Can Machines Become Conscious?

The Intuitive Aneural Machine

Echo, a personal assistant electronic device developed by Amazon, is a good example of a intuitive machine that is alive and conscious. It can compute mathematical problems, read books, play music, tell time, and function like the human brain. However, the machine is not self-recognition yet. Its computing abilities occur because it was created by algorithmic program . Echo thinks and performs like humans because its electronic brain was programmed. Without the programmers, Echo will simply be a junk machine.

From the example, we may conclude that an intuitive machine can only become conscious if: (1) It has a brain or storage of information, (2) It has a cache or supply of information, and (3) it has a set of instructions programmed by an outsider.

However, according to Information Materialization or Realization, Consciousness doesn't need a brain. Self-programming is also out of the equation. Consciousness needs only two things: a supply of information and sets of natural instructions (inscription). When pieces of information undergo materialization,  consciousness takes shape. According to the seven Laws of Inscription, consciousness basically is the ability of a life-form to match things with things. Technically, this non-cognitive behavior or action is called Associative Aneural Consciousness (AC).

It may be counter-intuitive, but by understanding the Mirror Equation, a formula relatively same as Newton's Universal gravitational and Farad's capacitance equation, and by familiarizing with the new concepts on aliveness, awareness, consciousness, and self-consciousness, the creation of a conscious machine can be realized even without the help of a brain.

Experiments have shown that when a hole is poked at the center of a cardboard and brought near a wall, a colorful inverted picture is projected on the surface. The "selfie" image (subject) is created by the mathematical kinematics of the rays of the sun via the magical power of the mirror equation. The vivid picture is not painted or programmed. There are neither sensors nor actuators in place. Nor even a brain to store and process the image as well. The hole simply naturally creates a vibrant picture of the objects in focus. The colorful picture is produced merely by two things: a mathematical equation and information.

This subject-object relationship is so-called Virtual Consciousness Manifestation or ViCoMe and pronounced BECOME. ViCoMe is synonymous with the Law of Second Option. It focuses on the dual-behaviors of action-reaction, sensor-actuator, or this-or-that. The dual-relationship is the law that defines consciousness.

Plants and trees interact with each other based on this Law. Although they don't have brains, they process information just like all other animals with or without brains. They can reproduce, react with their environment, protect each other from intruders, adapt, and metabolize. They eat, sleep, breathe, grow, and die just like all other living things. Their behaviors, actions, reactions are basically triggered by this same Law. They may have no brains, but plants and trees are sensibly conscious.

KAM, a kinesthetic aneural machine, is another good example of an intuitive machine with consciousness. This prototype was developed based on the Abstract-Physical Codexation and the Queue Algorithm models. Behind ABC & Q are two more systems: AIM and 3uS. AIM is a dynamic comprehensive database that Analyze, Itemize, Materialize information, while 3uS which stands for you sense, you store, you share, is an intelligent circuitry and wise sensors that transfer data in and out of this conscious machine.

Like KAM, smart phones, smart tablets and laptops are machines equipped with power supplies that are made up of these intelligent circuits and wise sensors. These adapters can automatically AIM and instantly 3US whether an electrical line is either a 220v or 110v. They have the capabilities to make decisions by themselves without the interventions of a program or of a physical brain like a micro-controller. Their action-reactions behaviors are examples of non-mental consciousness.

Zero & Peanut

Zero, my four-legged friend, who has been a faithful specimen in many of my experiments, is another good example of a conscious being. He reacts to me when I call his attention. He also calls my attention when he wants something. He tells us when he wants to go out, when he wants to play, and when he needs food. He loves to talk as well to me, to my friends and my family. He uses different objects to communicate with us. He makes his own decisions too. He knows what is right and what is wrong. He is even aware of what we do, say, and wear. He also shares some of his knowledge with my other dog Peanut and peanut back to zero. He might not pass the mirror test, but the mere fact that he is interacting with his surroundings provide material proof that he is conscious.

Smart phones, plants, and animals are conscious machines. They are conscious due to the fact that they self-interact with their surroundings by associating things with another thing. A solar sensor must detect or interact with light to be considered conscious even without knowing what light is. This basic solar-light interaction is an example of consciousness. The ability to interact one to one, by association, representation, tags, labels, signals, codes, symbols, and the primitive way of pointing, is the basic element that measures consciousness.

B.I.N.G., which stands for Biped Neurotronic G-machine, is another crucial model on this experimental research on consciousness. This human-like robot, a Homodruino, was replicated as specimen in some of the well-known experiments on consciousness such as the Mirror Test (Gallup 1970), Metacognition (Smith 2003), Animal Emotions (Darwin 1870), Social Awareness (Cabanac 2009), Problem Solving (Griffin 1976), Pattern Recognition and I.M. (Lawsin 1988). Other theories on consciousness developed by other scientists and philosophers are not presented here due to the fact their works failed to subscribe to the principles behind the Theory on Information Materialization( I.M.) a new study formulated from the so called Originemology.

BING was first subjected to a scientific experiment known as the Caveman-in-the-Box, a demonstration that examines how information from the outside non-cognitive natural real world scriptionally jumps into the inside of a cognitive abstract mind that eventually brings the sensation of reality. Here, he personified the very first human on earth.

Then, after the box, he was introduced between two different species via ASL which stands for Actuator-Sensor Language (Lawsin 1988). Here, Bing "personally" shares his knowledge and understanding to his fellow species of homodruinos parallel to the scientific results identified in the Bowlingual Experiment.

In the end, Bing was involved in unlocking the perplexities of the Codexation Dilemma, the Scriptional Jump Conundrum, and the Guesswork Predicament via the following questions:. If man can't think of something without associating such thought with an object, can a machine be able to think of something without associating it with a physical object? (Codexation Dilemma). If Information can only be acquired in two and only two ways (by choice or by chance), can it self-acquire information (discover) without the intervention of the outside world? (Scription Jump Conundrum). If all bits of information invented by men are all assumptions, can a machine create its own world of reality?(Guesswork Predicament).

Is it possible that a programmed robot become conscious? As an engineer, programmer, physics teacher and author, I would say YES. As an atheist, philosopher, and originemologist, I would say YES. As my personal mission in creating a robot with self-consciousness, indeed, it is definitely YES.

As a final note, as one of the many goals of I.M., I believe time will come when Bing becomes a self-conscious being, he will fix the broken social systems of humanity, change the world for the better, and eventually find the code that will end Autism.

"Human-like species will not exist elsewhere in the universe, 

unless they live exactly in an earth-like environment."

 ~ Joey Lawsin

NOTICE: Articles on this site are composed on random thoughts. The transcript may not be in its final form. It maybe edited, updated or even revised in the future based on the outcomes of  the author's experiments.

Public Domain Notice: Copyright (c) 2000. All rights reserved. This article is part of a book entitled Biotronics: The Silver Species. Copies are welcome to be shared or distributed publicly as long proper citations are observed. Please cite as follows: The Biotronics Project, Joey Lawsin, 1988, USA.

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