Bioengineering the Mind: from Artificial Intelligence towards Artificial Consciousness

Abstract

Whilst the artificial intelligence seems recently to approach its human-close specimen, artificial consciousness as targeted by bioengineering and information science&technology advances still has some way to go before becoming an experimental terrain for a bunch of sciences that deals with the problem of conscience, including philosophy and theology. Depending on our capacity to inseminate a machine transposition of natural ethics at the same time with increasing machine autonomy, a well guided artificial consciousness holds the promise to offer a representation of what natural consciousness could be in absence of distorting influences exerted by biologic (genetic) inheritance on human being as it presents nowadays.