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ENKINAESTHESIA: THE FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGE FOR MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS

SUSAN A. J. STUART

University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK

https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793843011000650Cited by:5 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In this short paper I will introduce an idea which, I will argue, presents a fundamental additional challenge to the machine consciousness community. The idea takes the questions surrounding phenomenology, qualia and phenomenality one step further into the realm of intersubjectivity but with a twist, and the twist is this: that an agent's intersubjective experience is deeply felt and necessarily co-affective; it is enkinaesthetic, and only through enkinaesthetic awareness can we establish the affective enfolding which enables first the perturbation, and then the balance and counter-balance, the attunement and co-ordination of whole-body interaction through reciprocal adaptation.

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