Look at how subtle and ingenious the behavior of a swarm of bees. Complete your understanding of the difficult-to-control behavior of an ants population. From the point of view of people, a certain mind controls such "conscious" behavior. You can see in the anthills the prototype of the Egyptian pyramids, and in the honeycomb of bees the contours of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings. The professional instantly distinguishes the creation of the robot from the creation of Human. I propose to wait for the era of "smart robots", which has not yet come. But if humanity still creates such robots, then this will be a step towards confrontation of Human and robots. Do you need Homo sapiens it? Or am I already talking to the robot? Sorry....

Hi, 

Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence have an a positive influence on  advanced technology. Why ?Because, Advanced technologies are the product of consciousness and thinking. The thinking reach a level tobe an artifial intellligence. So, this artifial intelligence is able to go far in technologies development. In short terms, Consciousness, artificial intelliegence and advanced technologies are three independent parameters.

With my best regards!

Dr. Adel OUESLATI 

Of course, human consciousness coupled with the human ability to do works, which other conscious primates or any animal for that matter cannot do, are capable of making artificial intelligence. It is true, neuroscience has made considerable headway in discovering "neural activity that correlates with consciousness." But, I doubt that these exactly correspond to what is going on in consciousness. For example, there are several people listen to the same music. Does it imply that the experience of all of them is the same. To different people, meanings in their inner self of people are different, while, if their brains are scanned at the time of listening to the music, the neural activity would be same.  As you pointed out, "Our brains perform many high-level cognitive tasks subconsciously. Consciousness, we can tentatively conclude, is not a necessary byproduct of our cognition [neural activty].". Hylic World gives sensation, what consciousness of a person makes out of it, varies from individual to individual. It is, therefore, hard to define consciousness. Since, robots [machines] are produced by humans not created by a Supreme Being, or most like to say have not gone through the process of evolution, they can be trained, made more intelligent, but never conscious.

Dear Houw Liong Thee  

I believe consciousness is simply a behavioral aspect of an intelligent being (any); it  would, in effect, have to be an aspect of any true AI robot (see the description, upcoming).

Consciousness (which some philosophers view as : attention, "wide" and/or "narrow"), I believe is perhaps better conceptualized as deliberateness -- in the broadest possible sense.  You will have AS PART OF this what you "bring forward" from the Memories and that gives the contextualization needed TO THEN SEE MORE.  We cannot deliberately process all at once, but we can process things-of-our-world at one cognitive level/stage, solidify that, and have processes -- with/in the rich contextualization of our long-term Memories, results of the previous developments -- to come to 'see'-things-to-process at the next stage/level.

I believe the processes to come to 'see'-things-to-process at the next stage/level are initially only perceptual shifts (occurring periodically during ontogeny, aka child development), GUIDING attention, though soon we will have these 'objects' (actually, likely just key portions of objects/situations) as the foci of attention and deliberately relate our current-experience of the environment and the Memories: using both to further see properties of things, further/better represent and classify things, and further understand causation (at least at times) -- all this happening VERY CONSCIOUSLY before becoming (themselves) part of long-term memories. Consciousness involves having more than the aspects of the present environment, per se, but also the good representations/visualizations of well-developed past learning/representation/thought   --  ALSO having THAT present in the present. I think consciousness is the necessary sense and realization that things not present are still (as appropriate, adaptively) PRESENT in your thought, as well as aspects of the true present environment  -- still, you must be able to sense and at least largely know what parts are what (what's "there"   VS   what's "from YOU" -- or, rather, FROM your past experience); you would process things incorrectly otherwise, confusing past and present, perhaps giving too much 'credence' to the-present, for example, which may have to be more regularly and reliably seen in order to properly join your Memories..

Perhaps, I expressed all this better in another post (though this may be a bit redundant):  (This better represents the view of a behavioral scientist, and not-so-much the view/experience of the subjects undergoing development ):

I do believe that the unfolding of that which develops into higher thinking abilities ** have at their inception PERCEPTUAL SHIFTS occurring periodically during ontogeny (child development) -- IN PARTICULAR, with each qualitatively new stage/level of functioning beginning 'simply' with changes in that which is "seen" (i.e. perceived -- but may well not be part of what is actually LITERALLY [(consciously)] seen immediately, though each shift still DOES GUIDE ATTENTION (and with the results of the new 'objects' of attention becoming very expressly conscious (and the foci of attention) fairly soon)).

THESE periodic perceptual shifts ARE related to needed "storage" to contextualize each of the NEXT emerging stages/levels; understanding the great deal of contextualization done by long-term memories is the ONLY way to properly understand "what is already known" (and "brought forward" from LTM) and to understand that which remains to be 'seen' and processed into further understandings (the latter, WHICH CAN BEGIN MERELY WITH PERCEPTUAL SHIFTS -- so development can both appropriately broad and appropriately open, for adaptation).

Start with my profile and see some of my main writings. It may be good for you to start here: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Human-Ethology-and-Development-Ethogram-Theory

** FOOTNOTE: It is first new learning, then new representation, and then new thinking (at higher levels of abstraction) to be more specific.