Unifying Consciousness and Time to Enhance Artificial Intelligence

Consciousness is a sequential process of awareness that focuses on one piece of information at a time, experiencing causation that underpins time while interacting with matter and energy to form reality. Patterns in consciousness emerge from regularities in nature—physical, biological, chemical, mental, and social—and evolve into cultural constructs, systems, and values. Responsible AI design should be attuned to these evolved ethical and moral values through consciousness, requiring self-learning AI that is aware of time perception and human ethics.

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Abstract

Consciousness is a sequential process of awareness which can focus on one piece of information at a time. This process of awareness experiences causation which underpins the notion of time while it interplays with matter and energy, forming reality. The study of Consciousness, time and reality is complex and evolving fast in many fields, including metaphysics and fundamental physics. Reality composes patterns in human Consciousness in response to the regularities in nature. These regularities could be physical (e.g., astronomical, environmental), biological, chemical, mental, social, etc. The patterns that emerged in Consciousness were correlated to the environment, life and social behaviours followed by constructed frameworks, systems and structures. The complex constructs evolved as cultures, customs, norms and values, which created a diverse society. In the evolution of responsible AI, it is important to be attuned to the evolved cultural, ethical and moral values through Consciousness. This requires the advocated design of self-learning AI aware of time perception and human ethics.