Part 1: Introduction
1. What is Consciousness?
Calum Chace
2. The Spinning Wheel: A Unified Theory of Intelligence and Consciousness
Daniel Hulme
3. Consciousness in Science Fiction
Tom Alish
Part 2: Feasibility, Pathways, Tests
4. The Mythology of Concious AI
Anil Seth
5. Are Any Machines Conscious Today?
Patrick Butlin
6. The Evidence for AI Consciousness Today
Cameron Berg
7. Are There Conscious AIs? The Quantum Darwinist Theory of Consciousness
Susan Schneider
8. How Could Consciousness be Cultivated in a Machine?
Mark Solms and Jonathan Shock
9. Artificial Consciousness and the Free Energy Principle
Karl Friston
10. Could Neuromorphic Computing Facilitate Consciousness?
Jason Eshragian and Steve Furber
11. Is Embodiment Necessary for Consciousness?
Nathaniel R. Farndale Wright, Neil D. Lawrence, and Nicola S. Clayton
12. Does the Body Matter? Perspectives on the Embodied Nature of Consciousness
Sahba Besharati, Steven James, and Benjamin Rosman
13. Many Ways of Being Minded: Neurodivergence and AI Consciousness
Lucy Griffiths
14. The Turing Test for Consciousness, Not Intelligence
Calum Chace
15. Machine Consciousness and Mind Uploading
Chris Percy
16. Selected, Blind Gropings of the Elephant of Consciousness
David Brin
Part 3: Implications
17. Public Beliefs about AI Sentience
Clara Colombatto
18. What Should We Do When We're Uncertain about Machine Consciousness?
Tom McClelland
19. Suspensive Coherence: What Machine Consciousness Demands of Us
Danielle Dodoo
20. The Case against Deploying Conscious-seeming AIs
Louie Lang
21. AI Consciousness Will Divide Society
Lucius Caviola
22. The Needs of Digital Minds
Roman V. Yampolskiy and Soenke Ziesche
23. The Ant You Can Save
Jeff Sebo and Andreas Mogensen
24. The Wibbly Line: It’s Time for Practical Policies
Radhika Chadwick
25. Should the First Superintelligence be Conscious?
Calum Chace
26. Coda: Conscium Manifesto
Daniel Hulme and Calum Chace
Biography
Calum Chace spent 30 years in business and journalism, mostly in strategy consulting. He has written several best-selling books on the future of AI, and has given keynote talks in over 20 countries. He is a co-founder and CMO of Conscium.
Ted Lappas is an expert in spatio-temporal computation and neural architectures for multimodal data. He jointly leads WPP's AI Lab, and is an assistant professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is a co-founder and CTO of Conscium.
