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Description
Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating waking experiences that resemble the human dream. Surprisingly, AI systems also easily meet all human-based operational criteria for dreaming. These "dreamsö are far different from anthropomorphic dreaming, including such processes as fuzzy logic, liquid illogic, and integration instability, all processes that may be necessary in both biologic and artificial systems to extend creative capacity.

Today, multi-linear AI systems are being built to resemble the structural framework of the human central nervous system. The creation of the biologic framework of dreaming (emotions, associative memories, and visual imagery) is well within our technical capacity. AI dreams potentially portend the further development of consciousness in these systems. This focus on AI dreaming raises even larger questions. In many ways, dreaming defines our humanity. What is humanly special about the states of dreaming? And what are we losing when we limit our focus to its technical and biologic structure, and extend the capacity for dreaming into our artificial creations? Machine Dreaming and Consciousness provides thorough discussion of these issues for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition.

Key Features
Addresses the function and role of dream-like processing in AI systems
Describes the functions of dreaming in the creative process of both humans and machines
Presents an alternative approach to the philosophy of machine consciousness
Provides thorough discussion of machine dreaming and consciousness for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition
Readership
Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists researching sleep, dreaming, learning/memory, consciousness, cognition, computational cognition, and neural networks of cognition; researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science interested in the philosophy of the mind; computer scientists interested in artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness

Table of Contents
Section I: Machine Dreaming and Consciousness-The Human Perspective

Chapter One. Dreaming: The Human Perspective

Abstract
Dream Definition # 1-Messages from God
Dream Definition # 2-Bizarre or Hallucinatory Mentation
Dream Definition # 3-Reports of Mental Activity Occurring During Sleep
Dream Definition # 4-Dreaming is REM Sleep
Dream Definition # 5-A Dream is Taking Place When a Lucid Dreamer Pushes a Button
Dream Definition # 6-The Fulfillment of a Wish
The Problems of Definition
The Phenomenology of Dreams
Partial Metaphors
The Dreams of Machines?
Chapter Two. The Mechanics of Human Consciousness

Abstract
Human Consciousness
The Neurobiology of Human Consciousness
Neuroanatomy
Neurochemistry
Electrophysiology
Human Consciousness-An Overview of the Processing System
Constructing Machine Consciousness
Chapter Three. Animal Dreaming-Animal Consciousness

Abstract
Animal Dreaming
Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
Proving that Dogs Dream
The Functions of Dreaming
Comparing Animal Dreams to Human Dreams
Animal Consciousness-Primary and Secondary
Tertiary Aspects of Animal Consciousness
Attention
Intention
Self-Awareness and Reflexive Consciousness (Demasio's Dog)
Animal Consciousness-Lions and Bats
Chapter Four. Testing for Machine Consciousness

Abstract
Applied Tests
Intelligence
Attention
Intentionality
Volition
Self-Awareness
Autonomous Entities (Strong AI)
Dreaming as Consciousness
Section II: Machine Dream Equivalents

Chapter Five. Sleep Modes

Abstract
Sleep in Finite State Machines
Screensavers
Expanding Sleep Mode
Network Sleep
Bottleneck Routers
Flow Congestion Avoidance
Machine Sleep-Summary
Chapter Six. Neural Networks: The Hard and Software Logic

Abstract
Fuzzy Logic
Artificial Neural Networks
Dream-Like Neural Network Processing
Chapter Seven. Filmmaking: Creating Artificial Dreams at the Interface

Abstract
The Visual Imagery of Dream
The Sensor
The Neurological Processing of Imagery
Representational Images
Dream Memories
Dream Emotions
Creating the Artificial Dream-Narrative and Direction
AI-Created Dreams
Chapter Eight. The Cyborg at the Dream Interface

Abstract
Keyboard-Based Machine Interface Systems
Reaching Beyond the Keyboard
The Neuroelectric Interface
The Dream Interface
Chapter Nine. Interpreting the AI Dream

Abstract
Dream Interpretation
Machine Data Presentation
Machine Data Interpretation
Chapter Ten. Creating the Perfect Zombie

Abstract
Neural Nets
Creating the Perfect Zombie
Neuroanatomic Zombies
Limitations in Creating the Neuroanatomic Zombie: CNS Complexity
Perfect Zombies
Section III: The Philosophy of Machine Dreaming

Chapter Eleven. Anthropomorphism: Philosophies of AI Dreaming and Consciousness

Abstract
Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphic Fears
Anthropomorphic Machines
Antropomorphism as a Marker for Consciousness
Anthropomorphic Dreams
Chapter Twelve. Searching for Dreams in Other (Stranger) Places

Abstract
The Cave Art of Southwest Europe
Dreams in Art
Petroglyphs
Searching for Dream Images
Other Places for Dream Phenomenology-Machines
Chapter Thirteen. Machine Consciousness

Abstract
The Consciousness of Finite State Machines
Self-Learning AI
Internet Consciousness
Internet Capacity for Aspects of Consciousness
Interface Consciousness
Summary: Aspects of Machine Consciousness
Chapter Fourteen. Forms of Machine Dreaming

Abstract
Machine Dream Equivalents
Machine Dreams-Messages from God
Machine Dreams-Sleep-Associated Mentation
Machine Dreams-Metaphor
Machine Dreams-Bizarre & Alternative Outcomes
Machine Dreams-The Phenomenology
Artifically Created REM Sleep
Machine-Created Dreams
Machine Dreams at the Human Interface
Machine Dreaming-System Summary and Comparison
Chapter Fifteen. The Antropomorphic Dream Machine

Abstract
Human Dreams
Human Interest in Dreaming
Cyborg Dreaming
These are not Dreams
Dreaming as a Marker for Humanity: The Argument for Human Dreaming