One of the major topics towards robot consciousness is to give a robot the capabilities of self-consciousness.
And at each stage, strengthening these neural capabilities helped advance our human consciousness.
The general capability of a range of current consciousness models to support a modular hierarchy which could generate these causal relationships is reviewed, and the specific capabilities of two models with good general capabilities are compared in some detail.
The choice is, essentially, between leading poor people towards changes based on an external consciousness, and raising mass consciousness and their capability to make the changes themselves.
Even such a "simple" activity as walking is best done without interference from consciousness, which does not have enough information processing capability to keep up with the demands of this task.
We strive for the condition of consciousness that the Romantic poet John Keats called "negative capability," the psychological state of residing in "benign uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".
Three hundred years after his birth, Lancelot "Capability" Brown has so comprehensively infiltrated our national consciousness that our notion of what is beautiful in the English landscape is almost entirely of his making.
Man, however, has developed further capabilities and is able to experience a 'higher' state of consciousness.
In the last century, the formerly sharp lines separating humans from animals — our monopolies on language, reason, toolmaking, culture, even self-consciousness — have been blurred, one after another, as science has granted these capabilities to other animals.
By definition, consciousness is selective awareness; it is linear in execution and limited in its capability to synthesize complex parameters.
