Artificial Consciousness in Postmedia Art

The quest to decrypt consciousness has increasingly getting a lot of attention in numerous scientific fields. Many are facing the hard problem of consciousness, in which most theories do not agree among each other. From within physics, different theories are posed that are consistently in conflict with theories from other fields like biology, psychology, phenomenology, cognitive neuroscience, metaphysics, quantum mechanics and so on. Even the existence of consciousness itself is actually uncertain. The importance of not just getting an insight of what it might be, but rather getting a deeper understanding of what it really is, is becoming more urgent in a world where AI and Machine Learning are rapidly changing the way technology is infusing everyone’s daily life. Are we opening the box of Pandora by developing these technologies, as increasingly has been warned by prominent figures of the tech industry, or could this technology solve the bigger problems humanity is facing with, like climate change. What if we accidentally develop technology which manifests signs of consciousness, and how to deal with this. These and a plethora of other questions are becoming so crucial to address that a neutral zone of research and experimentation is required, free from commercial incentives and unbiased within science. Within the territories of Postmedia art, this could take place. This paper will explore and present a new study the author proposed to commence at the City University of Hong Kong at the SCM starting in September 2019.