Brain and mind operational architectonics and man-made "machine" consciousness.

Building a truly conscious robot requires a brain that can support phenomenal consciousness like a human brain does. The Operational Architectonics framework, by examining millisecond-scale topographic sharp transitions in scalp EEG, reveals a hierarchical EEG architecture that mirrors the structure of the phenomenal world. This suggests that creating machine consciousness would need an implementation capable of supporting the same kind of hierarchical architecture found in EEG.

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Abstract

To build a true conscious robot requires that a robot's "brain" be capable of supporting the phenomenal consciousness as human's brain enjoys. Operational Architectonics framework through exploration of the temporal structure of information flow and inter-area interactions within the network of functional neuronal populations [by examining topographic sharp transition processes in the scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) on the millisecond scale] reveals and describes the EEG architecture which is analogous to the architecture of the phenomenal world. This suggests that the task of creating the "machine" consciousness would require a machine implementation that can support the kind of hierarchical architecture found in EEG.