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A CONCISE STUDY TOWARDS ENGINEERING CONSCIOUSNESS.

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Abstract

Consciousness, as a phenomenon, has been a curiously neglected subject in the STEM community. In this review article, after briefly discussing prevalent philosophical challenges the author explores recent structured approaches towards quantitatively defining this neurobiological phenomenon in terms of stochastic models with a special emphasis on integrated intrinsic information. A new possibility of Grand Unified Information Theory (GUIT) is introduced as a future scope. The article also discusses various potential applications in medical science, autonomous vehicle and entertainment industry along with current technical roadblocks. The article concludes with the necessity of exploiting this phenomenon by incorporating it as a subject of mainstream STEM research.

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Mayukh Mukhopadhyay. (2017); A CONCISE STUDY TOWARDS ENGINEERING CONSCIOUSNESS., Int. J. of Adv. Res., 5 (04), 2190-2202, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4067

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