Overview
Research focused on discovering the reasons for consciousness in higher mammals and why biology evolved this system for controlling complex organisms.
Goal
To use these principles for guiding the architecture of Adaptive Learning Robot Controllers.
Goodman Lab Robots trying to learn to synchronize.
Presentations and Papers
- Architecture for a Cognitive Conscious Machine. DARPA White Paper. Rod Goodman. 2004.
- Adaptive Real-Time Learning of Robot Controllers. Rod Goodman and Owen Holland. DARPA Workshop on Navigation, Locomotion, and Articulation” November 11th, 2003, Arlington, VA.
- O. Holland, and R. Goodman, “Robots with Internal Models: A Route to Machine Consciousness?” Journal of Consciousness Studies, Special Issue on Machine Consciousness, Vol. 10, No. 4-5, pp. 77-109, April/May 2003.
Milestone
In 2001, Dr. Goodman, along with Christof Koch, David Chalmers, and Owen Holland, organized the first-ever conference on Machine Consciousness at the Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, bringing together biologists, engineers, ethicists, and philosophers to discuss the question, "Can a Machine be Conscious?"