CONSCIOUSNESS, ACTION SELECTION, MEANING AND PHENOMENIC ANTICIPATION

Phenomenal states are generally considered the ultimate sources of intrinsic motivation for autonomous biological agents.In this article, we will address the issue of the necessity of exploiting these states for the design and implementation of robust goal-directed arti¯cial systems.We will provide an analysis of consciousness in terms of a precise de¯nition of how an agent \understands" the infor…