Neosentience. Definition; a New Combinatoric N-dimensional Bio-algorithm; Authorship of the Insight Engine 2.0 and Database; Recruitment of Transdisciplinary Researchers; Ethics Surrounding the Generation of a New, Self-aware Autonomous Techno-species

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• ISEA2020: 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Neosentience. Definition; a New Combinatoric N-dimensional Bio-algorithm; Authorship of the Insight Engine 2.0 and Database; Recruitment of Transdisciplinary Researchers; Ethics Surrounding the Generation of a New, Self-aware Autonomous Techno-species

• Bill Seaman

• Definition: pragmatic benchmarks are used to define neosentient robotic entities: the system could exhibit well defined functionalities: It learns; it intelligently navigates; it interacts via natural language; it generates simulations of behavior (it thinks about potential behaviors) before acting in physical space; it is creative in some manner; it comes to have a deep situated knowledge of context through multimodal sensing; and it displays mirror competence. Seaman and Rössler have entitled this robotic entity The Benevolence Engine. They state that the interfunctionality of such a system is complex enough to operationally mimic human sentience. Benevolence can in principle arise in the interaction of two such systems. Synthetic emotions would be part of the system. The System would be benevolent in nature.
  The concept of Neosentence (coined by Seaman) was first articulated in the book Neosentience / The Benevolence Engine by Seaman and Rössler.

  This talk had four sections:

  1. Providing a definition of Neosentience;
  2. The concept of developing a new combinatoric n-dimensional bio-algorithm — employing a transdisciplinary database and search engine enabling distributed research;
  3. The recruitment of a transdisciplinary research team to populate this database;
  4. The ethics surrounding the generation of a new, selfaware autonomous techno-species.

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