Conscious Machines (Score 1)

Pentti O Haikonen: The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines. Imprint Academic, UK 2003 Easy reading, no mathematics here, lots of ideas. Based on cognitive sciences, engineer's insights and common sense. Pentti O Haikonen: Robot Brains; circuits and systems for conscious machines.Wiley and Sons, UK 2007 Haikonen envisions autonomous robots that perceive and understand the world directly, acting in it in a natural human-like way without the need of programs and numerical representation of information. By developing higher-level cognitive functions through the power of artificial associative neuron architectures, the author approaches the issues of machine consciousness.