Neosentience

<p>The study addressed in this 'book' puts forward a project that is twofold. Firstly it discusses the conceptual basis within which it would be possible for the construction of a 'neosentient' system a machine endowed with the capacity to perceive or feel things in the world as if manifesting a proto-form of (artificial) consciousness. Secondly it hypothesizes about the rising of benevolence through the interaction/intra-action between 'neosentient' machines and their environment which include us human beings as inhabitants. The manuscript tackles its task in a very particular manner as it interrelates a constellation of ideas in order to address key research agendas on the fields of language aesthetics philosophy biology physics science technology mind and consciousness to name some. The goal of the book is not to define the structure within which such an engine could be built it does not bring into light the blueprint of such an but it nails down key concepts from a broad range of topics mapping a path for future research reinforcing this way the sense of feasibility of its enterprise. In doing so the book illuminates trajectories ramifications or even non-directly correlated ideas that would pass unnoticed to the reader's mind were not by the authors generously bringing into play sets of key scholars theories discoveries and even speculative ideas.</p>