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Can Artificial Intelligence be Conscious?

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In this paper, I propose some new approach to determine the possibility of introducing Artificial Consciousness into information systems. The new rigorous formulations of the basic cognitive concepts outlined in the article are in themselves a valuable result.

The implementation of basic cognitive concepts in real Artificial Intelligence is impossible without adapting well-known, but verbose and vague formulations of such concepts to the requirements of Information Technology. In this article, I propose possible "codable" formulations of such cognitive concepts, including "consciousness".

In fact, this is a fundamental article about the possibility of implementing Artificial Consciousness, which demonstrates a new constructive approach to AI. All the definitions of cognitive terms given in the article are my own, original, they have been verified in many discussions in the AGI community.

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