?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Machine+Hyperconsciousness&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.description=Individual+animal+consciousness+appears+limited+to+a+single+giant+component+of+interacting+cognitive+modules%2C+instantiating+a+shifting%2C+highly+tunable%2C+Global+Workspace.+Human+institutions%2C+by+contrast%2C+can+support+several%2C+often+many%2C+such+giant+components+simultaneously%2C+although+they+generally+function+far+more+slowly+than+the+minds+of+the+individuals+who+compose+them.++Machines+having+multiple+global+workspaces+--+hyperconscious+machines+--+should%2C+however%2C+be+able+to+operate+at+the+few+hundred+milliseconds+characteistic+of+individual+consciousness.+Such+multitasking+--+machine+or+institutional+--+while+clearly+limiting+the+phenomenon+of+inattentional+blindness%2C+does+not+eliminate+it%2C+and+introduces+characteristic+failure+modes+involving+the+distortion+of+information+sent+between+global+workspaces.+This+suggests+that+machines+explicitly+designed+along+these+principles%2C+while+highly+efficient+at+certain+sets+of+tasks%2C+remain+subject+to+canonical+and+idiosyncratic+failure+patterns+analogous+to%2C+but+more+complicated+than%2C+those+explored+in+Wallace+(2006a).+By+contrast%2C+institutions%2C+facing+similar+challenges%2C+are+usually+deeply+embedded+in+a+highly+stabilizing+cultural+matrix+of+law%2C+custom%2C+and+tradition+which+has+evolved+over+many+centuries.++Parallel+development+of+analogous+engineering+strategies%2C+directed+toward+ensuring+an+'ethical'+device%2C+would+seem+requisite+to+the+sucessful+application+of+any+form+of+hyperconscious+machine+technology.&rft.date=2006-07&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5005%2F1%2Fhyper2.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick++(2006)+Machine+Hyperconsciousness.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5005%2F