MECA SAPIENS - machine consciousness project

The ELIZA program is not an interesting computer implementation of the divination process. It provides us with insights that allow us to define the Core Conditions of Consciousness. This is an important and original result. It sets clear and observable conditions for machine consciousness. These conditions form the basis for a first definition Machine Intelligence that is general yet precise enough for machine implementation.

By defining his wonderful intellectual construct, The Turing Test, Alan Turing provided us with a key concept: the primary indicator of machine intelligence is not in the machine’s behaviour itself but the observed behaviour of the humans that interact with it. However, the test he proposed is ultimately unsuitable as a measure of machine consciousness because it is both excessive and insufficient and because it is a test.