Artificial consciousness

Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to Artificial intelligence whose aim is to produce a rigorous and objective definition of consciousness, in a mathematical sense, and build a theory toward implementating it in a model or a cognitive architecture.{{fn|1}}

Artificial consciousness in literature and movies

Fictional instances of artificial consciousness:

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• Vanamonde in Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars
• The Ship (the result of a large-scale AC experiment) in Frank Herbert's ' and sequels
• Jane in Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and The Investment Counselor
• HAL 9000 in '
• Data in Star Trek
• Robots in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
• Andrew Martin in The Bicentennial Man
• Blade Runner
• The Matrix
• The Technocore in Dan Simmons' Hyperion and Endymion series