Phenomenal Weightless Machines

Abstract: This paper describes how early designs of dynamic weightless neural systems were developed to enable some of the states of a state structure to have a phenomenal character. Such states reflect the features of a sensory reality and allow the storage of aspects of sensory experience and access to it. The ‘machine consciousness ’ paradigm is summarised in this paper. The paper concludes with a description of the current state-of-the-art of a phenomenal approach to a model of consciousness which is based on the first of a set of introspective axioms. 1. Introduction. This paper is a review of the role that weightless systems (see Aleksander and Morton, 1990, for an early definition) have played in the development of the ‘machine consciousness ’ paradigm. The aims of those who contribute to ‘machine consciousness ’ are first, to clarify what it is for an organism, whether it be human