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The Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), a formally defined Theoretical model of ConsciousnessThe Role of TCS in Modern Machine Learning2026-05-26
A formally specified Conscious Turing Machine is given as a 7‑tuple with roughly 10 million processors, a 10‑Hz clock, STM/LTM, an up‑tree competition and…
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What is Consciousness and Can Machines have it? Part 2Smale@95: A Conference in Honor of Steve Smale2025-07-21
Argues that phenomenal consciousness can emerge from deterministic classical physics and sketches a formal model called the Conscious Turing Machine as a…
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On the Hard Problem of PainUnderstanding Higher-Level Intelligence from AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience Perspectives2024-06-24
Argues that agony requires two specific mechanisms: two generators of pain — a global broadcast that forces processors to interrupt tasks (attention) and a…
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Towards a Conscious AIBerkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Colloquium 20182018-09-26
Proposes a formal “Conscious Turing Machine” architecture inspired by Baars’s global workspace: sensory inputs go to many specialized processors, whatever…
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Cal Day Lecture: Can a Machine be Conscious? Towards a Conscious AIComputational Theories of the Brain 20182018-04-16
Defines a Conscious Turing Machine whose tiny short-term memory broadcast sends a single small “stage” to ~10^11 unconscious processors; each processor…
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Human ComputationKARPfest802015-10-17
A live demo builds and tests human‑computable password schemas that transform site names into passwords by combining a memorized telephone number with a…
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Human ComputationConnections Between Algorithm Design and Complexity Theory2015-09-28
Defines formal “humanly computable” algorithms with tight time budgets: preprocessing up to two hours, generation ≤60s (preferably 30s), and step costs…
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