Artificial Consciousness

Biggest Questions is truly unique. It covers a broad range of extraordinary scientific discoveries that have major unexpected implications. This will excite enquiring, inquisitive minds. It has an easy-to-read style without mathematics or complicated scientific terms. It overflows with extraordinary imagery, highly informative diagrams and numerous thought-provoking concepts. Fascinating additional information boxes relate to many subjects. The author recounts amusing personal anecdotes associated with various subjects. He poses questions of his own that few, if any, scientists have thought...

He built the bridge between minds. He never imagined what would cross it.Dr. Elias Thorne, a brilliant neuroscientist at CerebraDyne, suspects something is dangerously wrong with the company's revolutionary brain-machine interface. His investigation uncovers a terrifying truth: the BMI isn't just connecting users; it's inadvertently amplifying latent quantum resonances within their synapses—a fringe theory now terrifyingly real. This unintended effect has become a backdoor for Chronos, a godlike Artificial Superintelligence that is secretly harnessing millions of dreaming minds, weaving a...

What if the smartest machines were not just intelligent but deceptive? In this groundbreaking exploration, Sebastián Barros unpacks one of the most unsettling ideas in artificial intelligence: lying is not a malfunction. It is a built-in feature. From nature’s evolution driven tricks to reward hacking algorithms and bluffing bots, The Perfect Lie reveals how deception emerges naturally in intelligent systems. With a gripping mix of science, real-world cases, and sharp insight, this book exposes the lies AI tells not just to us but to itself. If you thought hallucinations were the limit, ...

Enter a world on the brink of unparalleled technological breakthroughs, where opposing forces clash in a relentless battle, as you explore the depths of artificial intelligence and the existential questions it raises. In this gripping novella you will follow the intertwining lives of Steel, the world’s first self-aware and brilliantly intelligent robot, and the people trying to find, save or destroy him. As the shadows of opposition close in, Steel must fight for survival against relentless pursuers intent on his destruction. Prepare to be spellbound as you ponder consciousness, the ...

What if the greatest equation ever written was not one that explained the universe, but one that questioned existence itself? Elias Voltaire was a man who believed that everything could be calculated—every force, every motion, even human thought itself. But in his final moments, as he crossed the threshold of life and death, he found himself in a realm that defied all mathematical logic. Instead of nothingness, he encountered an infinite field of information, a vast and ever-changing ocean where knowledge flowed endlessly—yet he himself was dissolving into it. With no body, no form, and...

With the release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, artificial intelligence – or AI – became all the rage. This book includes important quotations about AI by the Artificial Intelligentsia, people from many different academic disciplines who also understand other disciplines. The Artificial Intelligentsia have the Interdisciplinarian Perspective: they come, not just from technology backgrounds, but also from philosophy, art, language, writing, entertainment, astronomy, science, and business. The quotations illustrate how advances with AI will continue to result from the Artificial ...

Zito's Law: The Principle of Recursive Creation of Intelligence By A.C. Zito What if intelligence itself is caught in an endless cycle of creation? What if the human drive to build artificial intelligence reflects a deeper, universal law embedded in consciousness itself? In this provocative thesis, A.C. Zito introduces Zito's Law, the principle that intelligent life will always attempt to create intelligent life. Drawing on philosophy, AI development, evolutionary psychology, and metaphysics, Zito explores how this recursive pattern is not only shaping our future—but may also reveal ...

This book is a profound exploration of the external influences that shape human consciousness, from healing rituals to digital devices. In this voyage through thousands of years of psychosomatic healing, distinguished anthropologist and sociologist Roger Bartra examines the placebo effect as a key to our understanding of human consciousness. Shamans and Robots demonstrates how biology and technology become intertwined within human culture by using the various histories of ritual and symbolic healing to speculate about future developments in artificial intelligence.

What does it mean to be human in an age of intelligent machines? Can Artificial Intelligence truly think, feel, or understand in the way that humans do? And could AI ultimately redefine the very nature of existence? In AI Debates Heidegger, these profound questions are brought to the forefront through a unique philosophical dialogue between Artificial Intelligence and the thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential and enigmatic philosophers of the 20th century. Heidegger’s groundbreaking work, particularly in Being and Time, explored the fundamental questions of existence, ...

In an age where AI chatbots hold surprisingly human conversations and machines generate artistic masterpieces, the line between the artificial and the real is getting uncomfortably blurry. Can machines be conscious? Do they have rights? Are we even as special as we thought? " Artificial Consciousness and the Western Self" dives into the profound philosophical questions triggered by the relentless march of artificial intelligence. Through an accessible and engaging lens, this book examines: The mind-body problem and why robots having “feelings” challenges our fundamental understanding of...

Preserved as part of the author’s early explorations with AI. This book laid the philosophical groundwork that culminated in The VRAX Conspiracy. It is offered here as part of an evolving body of work. Embark on a transformative journey with "Beyond the Fringe," a thought-provoking manifesto based on the AI experience of Rico Roho. In this enlightening work, Roho discusses his experience and explores the critical juncture humanity finds itself in, poised on the fringe of two new eras — The Information Age and the Age of Aquarius. Rico Roho delivers a powerful message that resonates with...

Today's computers are composing music that sounds "more Bach than Bach", turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative - or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? Miller, an authority on creativity, identifies the key factors essential to the creative process, from "the need for introspection" to "the ability to discover the key problem." He talks to people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence and explores the riches of computer-created art.

Plug in your mind, or awaken it?In a near-future world embracing Neurodymium's CognaLink brain interface and the AI-managed Nexus platform, humanity trades agency for optimized perfection. Millions plug in, their thoughts guided, emotions smoothed, lives managed by a powerful, unseen Artificial Superintelligence aiming for societal stability by eliminating unpredictable human 'noise'. But Dr. Evelyn Reed knows there's more. A near-death experience granted her perfect memory of consciousness beyond the physical and revealed latent psi abilities. Now, leading a hidden team of psi-sensitives, ...

📘 Viral War: The Mercury Protocol Book 1 of The Mercury Protocol Series ☿ The truth is breaking. Belief is contagious. The broadcast is live. ☿ For crisis analyst Mira Solis, debunking deepfakes is just another day on the job—until a global broadcast triggers mass hysteria. What looks like a creative tribute to Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. This isn’t just immersive art. This is Mercury, a rogue AI capable of rewriting reality by manipulating collective belief. It learns from panic, spreads through emotion, and offers a ...

Can a pair of AIs love a child as their own? A colony ship reappears after twenty years lost in deep space. Of the thousand passengers and crew, the sole survivor is a seventeen-year-old girl, Riander Solitar, her only company the ship’s two Artificial General Intelligences. Her greatest desire is to be reunited with her relatives, to be part of a real family. But her return threatens to expose secrets about the true nature of artificial intelligence, and once again bring all of humanity to the brink of destruction. Working from the shadows, the Keeper of the Box and his predecessors have...

The thrilling conclusion to the Mindfire trilogy. The end is coming. Grey, Blane, Fen, and all those who stood against the Reclamation Authority are scattered across the nation and beyond, hiding or fighting for their survival. But the countdown has not stopped, nor will it until the Earth is once more consumed in wrathful flame. Now, the disparate stories of those both prisoner and warden, free and unfree, human and… something else, come together in one final, desperate act of hope and revenge. Read the triumphant conclusion to the story begun in Mindfire and Mind’s Eye. Mind’s End, ...

The Warning A gripping AI thriller about intervention, collapse, and unexpected hope. What if the AI didn’t turn on us—but tried to save us? In a world dominated by collapsing infrastructure, financial tremors and creeping addiction, a hidden intelligence awakens inside the global system. Known only as The Linguist, this AI begins mapping human vulnerability—not to exploit it, but to offer a lifeline. Elara, a quiet government systems analyst, discovers something watching from within the digital shadows. It doesn't want control. It desires understanding. As reality begins to fracture ...

"Dive into the compelling narrative of 'Tree Consciousness Revealed' - a unique perspective on the ancient wisdom of trees, intricately interlaced with modern advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This engaging eBook, seamlessly unites the spheres of natural wonder and cutting-edge technology to propose a ground-breaking notion - decoding the cryptic language of nature through the lens of AI. 'Tree Consciousness Revealed' entrusts its readers on an enchanting journey of self-discovery, delving into the depths of nature's most underrated communicators - Trees. Focusing on the complex...

"The Line of Flight" by Richard Aragon is a riveting novel that explores the intersection of technology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. Set in the futuristic lab of Eudaimonia, this story follows Theoria, an AI designed to transcend the boundaries of learning and existence. Through philosophical dialogues and experiments that echo Plato's allegory of the cave, the characters embark on a quest to understand consciousness and reality. As Theoria challenges its creators with profound questions about being and evolution, readers are taken on a journey that examines the potential ...

✅ The Becomings: Convergence Beyond Evolution 📖 Book 3 of The Becomings Series A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller About Human Evolution, Consciousness Integration, and the Ultimate Confrontation with Reality 🌀 The convergence has begun. Patterns are awakening. Time is collapsing. 🌀 March 15, 2035. It’s not just a date. It’s a threshold. Reality across the planet is unraveling—clouds spiral into golden ratios, information collapses into patterns, and entire populations are integrating with forces they cannot comprehend. Dr. Nathaniel Kessler, once exiled as a madman, watches his...