In Meca Sapiens the construction of a conscious machine is viewed as primarily an engineering project to be achieved using the tools and techniques of Mathematics, Computer Science and, to a lesser degree, Psychology and Linguistics.
The project follows a standard engineering development process to achieve Machine Consciousness. This process consists of three sequential stages:
- Requirements and Specifications. Describes the context motivating the requirement for the work and defines consciousness in terms of clearly stated specifications.
- System Design. Produces a high level Blueprint of the complete solution that includes a description of all the major components and structures that must be developed to achieve the specification. This theoretical framework must be completed before carrying out any detailed design or coding begins.
- Implementation. Once a high-level outline of the complete solution is defined, the design and coding of that solution is carried out. In a classical approach, detailed design and coding is avoided until the System Design is completed. Premature coding is viewed, in fact, as a distraction.
MECA SAPIENS aims to complete the first two stages of this process:
- the definition of consciousness as achievable specifications, and
- the elaboration of a Blueprint (or framework) to implement it.
This top down development strategy is different from most current research in Machine Consciousness (learn more...).
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