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Romportl, J. : Consciousness and Causal Paradox of Emergent Systems . Interdisciplinary aspects of human-machine co-existence and co-operation, p. 97-105, Czech Technical University , Prague, 2005.

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This paper understands Golem as an artificial conscious being and the problem of Golem construction is seen as establishing appropriate causal relations between different causal domains - namely the causal domain of neural systems (either human brains or artificial neural networks) and the causal domain of mental processes (mental or psychological states and perhaps the consciousness). The paper further introduces and argues for the formal model of such causal domains (and their inter-domain relation) based on Vopěnka's Alternative Set Theory (AST). This model shows a very interesting result, which can be called "an inter-domain causal paradox": each phenomenon from the mental domain must be principally caused by all phenomena from the neural domain. The link between the emergentist paradigm and this ambiguous inter-domain causation is shown.

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Title: Consciousness and Causal Paradox of Emergent Systems
Author: Romportl, J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 3 Jul 2005
Year: 2005
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Interdisciplinary aspects of human-machine co-existence and co-operation
Page: 97 - 105
ISBN: 80-01-03275-2
Publisher: Czech Technical University
Address: Prague
Date: 3 Jul 2005 - 5 Jul 2005
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Keywords

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, consciousness, causality, causal domain, alternative set theory

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@INPROCEEDINGS{RomportlJ_2005_Consciousnessand,
 author = {Romportl, J.},
 title = {Consciousness and Causal Paradox of Emergent Systems},
 year = {2005},
 publisher = {Czech Technical University },
 address = {Prague},
 pages = {97-105},
 booktitle = {Interdisciplinary aspects of human-machine co-existence and co-operation},
 ISBN = {80-01-03275-2},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/RomportlJ_2005_Consciousnessand},
}