Creating Conscious Machines:

The Missed Nobel Prize of Shun’ichi Amari and Future Challenges

Abstract

    The Hard Problem of consciousness highlights the explanatory gap between subjective experience and objective neuroscience. Some philosophers argue that it is unsolvable, but since all science sits upon natural laws, such laws of consciousness can be used to bridge the gap. To test such natural laws, I argue that development of artificial consciousness is crucial, where it's consciousness is tested by connecting it to our own brain and “seeing for ourselves”. Finally, creating such machines with consciousness involves reconstruction of neural wiring of the postmortem human brain via invasive connectome methods and treating it as initial state for training to reproduce neural dynamics that likely resides consciousness.