Engineering computer architectures for cognitive robotics - the CR/SARAMA model

Abstract

The concepts of Artifact-as-Organism and Creator-in-a-Box, and their autonomy, adaptation and evolution are proposed as purely engineering motivations for the incorporation of the cognitive attributes of consciousness and self-awareness into robots, automata, machines and artifacts. These ideas are then used to create computational models of cognitive robots and machine consciousness that can be executed using modern parallel, distributed, many core, and massively multi-core, computer architectures.