On the problem of creating robotic systems with artificial consciousness and acting personality

On the problem of creating robotic systems with artificial consciousness and acting personality

Sergey F. Sergeev *
Doctor of Psychological Science, Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), Leading Research Scientist, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064; Russia Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnical University (SPbPU), Professor, Head of Scientific and Research Laboratory of Complex Systems, 29, Politekhnicheskaya ul., Saint-Petersburg, 195251, Russia, tel.: +7(911)995-09-29, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Received 19 July 2019

Abstract
The paper deals with the issues related to the possibility and limitations of technological creation of artificial systems endowed with consciousness and the subject existing in the world of artificial subjective reality. The problems of creating an artificial personality in the given parameters are shown. The main obstacle to the creation of intelligent systems is the lack of progress in our understanding of the nature and mechanisms of the brain in the process of generating a mental image and organization of targeted activities. The transfer of psychology data to the engineering sphere is ineffective due to the difference in conceptual and instrumental areas of these disciplines. The approaches of synthetic psychology and pedagogy designed to provide a solution to the problem of creating an artificial subjective reality and technogenic modification of man are presented.

Key words
Artificial subjective reality, artificial consciousness, artificial sensory organs, synthetic psychology, self-organization, convergent and divergent technologies.

Acknowledgements
Work was accomplished within the frame of state task of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation No. 25.8444.2017/БЧ.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31776/RTCJ.7401 

Bibliographic description
Sergeev, S. (2019). On the problem of creating robotic systems with artificial consciousness and acting personality. Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, 7(4), pp.245-257.

UDC identifier:
159.922:004.896

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