Problem
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affective consciousness
artificial agent
hedonic place preference behaviour
Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent: A Case Study
🤖 AI Summary
研究通过构建一个能展示享乐地点偏好的人工代理，探讨其在确定性机制下如何模拟体验不确定性及内在需求，以此探索意识和自由意志的物理基础。
📝 Abstract
Creatures that display 'hedonic place preference behaviour' are thought by many scientists to experience feelings, on the assumption that their attraction to pleasure-producing substances which lack nutritional value (e.g. cocaine, morphine) cannot easily be attributed to unconscious instinctual behaviour. In this paper, we discuss how a simple artificial agent that instantiates attributes of an affective system engaging in felt uncertainty about its intrinsic needs in relation to environmental resources can similarly display hedonic place preference behaviour -- through an apparently subjective form of information processing -- while simultaneously being entirely deter-ministic. We outline some implications of this artificially engineered behaviour for our understanding of the physical basis of consciousness and the experience of free will.
Innovation
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affective consciousness
artificial agent
hedonic place preference
deterministic mechanism
subjective information processing
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