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Recommended Reading on Consciousness, Self Awareness, and Intelligence

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I am helping to teach (TA) a course on machine learning and artificial intelligence where we go over some compare and contrast with nature on a more "hard science" level (natural neural networks vs. artificial neural networks / AI's performance on simple cognitive tasks vs. animals  or humans ).

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There seems to be considerable interest by a minority of students to explore some of the more philosophical aspects of consciousness, self awareness, and general intelligence. Although that is somewhat outside the scope of the course, we provide further reading material (select readings re: Aristotle, Decartes, Locke, Leibniz, and several others all the way to Freud) ; however, because many have little or no formal exposure to philosophy, they are finding some of the readings difficult or dense. For background, it is a survey course in computer science, not philosophy, but we cover some ethical concerns with data science, machine learning, and AI. That and people are concerned that AI will become conscious and do strange things (no comment from me on this one).

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**Questions:**

(1) What would you recommend as readings for the subjects of consciousness, awareness, and/or intelligence which are either good overviews or introductions?

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(2) What are good reads in philosophy which specifically address "artificial" consciousness, awareness, intelligence?

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Thank you!
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(1) David Chalmers - *The Puzzle of Conscious Experience,* David Chalmers *- Facing Up to The Problem of Consciousness,* Thomas Nagel - *What Is It Like To Be A Bat?,* David M. Rosenthal *- Two Concepts of Consciousness,* Dennett - *Consciousness: How much is that in real money?*, Putnam - *The Nature of Mental States,* Dennett *- Explaining The "Magic" of Consciousness,* William Seager *- Could Consciousness Be an Illusion?* 

Any reading that distinguishes between access and phenomenal consciousness, self-aware and high-order theories of consciousness, representational theories, and more simple theories, such as those which grant any organism that is perceptually aware to be conscious. 

(2) John Searle - *Minds, Brains, and Programs*, Andy Clark and Josefa Toribio - *Doing without Representing*?, Michael Pauen - *Reality and Representation: Qualia, Computers, and the "Explanatory Gap"*, Rajakishore Nath - *Machine Consciousness, Mind & Consciousness*