Artificial Consciousness by Antonio Chella

Artificial Consciousness by Antonio Chella

The book is interdisciplinary and focuses on the topic of artificial consciousness: from neuroscience to artificial intelligence, from bioengineering to robotics. It provides an overview on the current state of the art of research in the field of artificial consciousness and includes extended and revised versions of the papers presented at the International Workshop on 'Artificial Consciousness', held in November 2005 at Agrigento (Italy).

Antonio Chella was born in Florence on March 4, 1961. In 1988 he obtained his laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the University of Palermo and in 1993 he obtained his PhD in Computer Engineering defending a thesis on neural networks for robot vision. From 1992 to 1998 he was a scientific researcher at the University of Palermo, where he became an associate professor in 1998 and a professor in robotics in 2001.

He is the head of Robotics Lab of the Department of Chemical, Management, Computer, Mechanical Engineering (DICGIM) of the University of Palermo. His main research interests concern machine consciousness and cognitive architectures for robotics. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Machine Consciousness.