Digging into CTM's consciousness: A possible mechanism for CTM generating self-conscious
arXiv Preprint Archive October 22, 2024 Shaoyang Cui, Shanglin Wu, Nikolai Madlener
Building on the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) framework, this paper explores whether CTM can possess consciousness and self-consciousness. It defines self-consciousness by combining CTM's conscious awareness with the duality of self from prior studies. The authors test CTM against two human consciousness definitions using four key criteria, concluding that CTM likely can generate consciousness. A Model-of-the-World (MoTW) processor is introduced with five components: Modeling, Gist, Value, Cache, and Long-term memory. Illusions and disorders are used to explain how the MoTW processor might operate, offering insights into how these phenomena could arise in a CTM.