The Importance of Neuroscientific Research of Consciousness for the Development of General Artificial Intelligence (Methodological Issues)

Abstract

The development of artificial intelligence has entered a new stage associated with the problem of creating General Artificial Intelligence (AGI), approaching in its functions to the abilities of natural intelligence. Along with the phe­nomenological studies of the cognitive structures of subjective reality, the most important resource for the creation of AGI is the use of the results of neuroscien­tific studies of consciousness. The article discusses the most important of them, which can serve as a basis for modeling specific cognitive architectures of AGI. This requires a theoretical explaining the nature of the connection between the phenomena of subjective reality and brain processes. The author proposes an in­formational approach that allows explaining this connection and thereby substan­tiate the use of a neuroscientific description of cognitive operations for computer modeling of specific cognitive architectures of AGI. For this purpose, the results of the most important neuroscientific studies of consciousness are analyzed for the development of AGI. A prerequisite for this is the organization of closer co­operation of specialists in the field of methodology and epistemology, artificial intelligence and neuroscientific research.