Mentes, Metas e Máquinas: um desaio para a consciência artiicial Minds, Goals and Machines: a challenge for arti fi cial consciousness

The Global Workspace Theory att empts to describe conscious tasks functi onally. Also, there are att empts of applying such cogniti ve theory to machine consciousness. However, the theory depends essenti ally on the noti on of goals for determining the hierarchy of content in consciousness. This work analyzes characteristi cs of goals, diff erenti ati ng “genuine goals” from “parti al goals”. This work proposes that in order for a system to have genuine goals it must be liquid, capable of adapti ng to changes, being composed of micro-agents with the common interest of survival and replicati on. We propose that two branches of Arti fi cial Intelligence could be capable of creati ng agents with genuine goals in the future: nanoroboti cs and hybrid machinery. Because of such analysis we believe a trustworthy applicati on of Global Workspace Theory depends fion the existence of arti fi cial systems with genuine goals.