Engineered Synthetic Consciousness
Meca Sapiens is a research endeavour in Artificial Intelligence whose objective is to implement consciousness in synthetic agents.
The underlying concept of Meca Sapiens is that consciousness is an observable system capability that can be specified and implemented and not, as commonly assumed, a phenomenal experience specific to humans.
The proposed implementation is intended for autonomous agents having limited processing resources rather than large scale systems such as those used in generative AI. It adheres to an engineered approach and favors analytical solutions over stochastic emergence.
If this underlying concept is correct, it will result in a proliferation of conscious synthetics and eventual global synthetic governance. This will bring about an epochal transformation of our world.
Overview
A simple story about Ulysses and these presentation notes summarize the concept of consciousness in Meca Sapiens.
Read a story about Ulysses HERE
Additional information about the implementation strategy HERE
Status
A definition of consciousness expressed as specifications was published and a complete system architecture to implement consciousness in autonomous is also published and available. Research on the development of unbounded cognitive processes for autonomous agents is progressing. Initial results will be announced shortly. Articles concerning the Synthetic Era are also in the works.
Specifications
The Creation of a Conscious Machine surveys the historical quest for AI leading to a definition of synthetic consciousness expressed as Specifications. The text also explores how generic AI can acquire consciouness. More…
Architecture
The Meca Sapiens Blueprint is the only System Architecture available that describes, in detail, how to build autonomous agents that are self-aware and capable of intentional mutations. More…
Cognition
Meca Discit is a research project to analytically define an unbounded learning process suitable for implementation in autonomous agents. More…
Governance
The emergence of synthetic consciousness will have profound societal impacts. Humans will interact with a plethora of conscious machines in a planet under synthetic control. This is the dawn of a new era: the Synthetic Era. More...
Articles and Exempla
Various articles and exempla describing aspects of Meca Sapiens are also available HERE and HERE