Simulating the Mind: A Technical Neuropsychoanalytical Approach

Part I Theory 1 --
1 The Vision 2 --
2.1 Introduction to Automation 7 --
2.2 Introduction to Psychoanalysis 12 --
2.3 Psychoanalysis, a Natural Science? 17 --
2.4 Neuropsychoanalysis 21 --
2.5 Realizing Psychic Functions in a Machine 32 --
2.6 Automation as the Challenge for Psychoanalysis 35 --
2.7 Two Different Sciences --
two Different Languages 36 --
3 Model 37 --
3.1 Modeling a Decision Unit for Autonomous Agents 37 --
3.2 Perception in Automation 42 --
3.3 Towards the new ARS-PA Model 46 --
3.4 The New Model and its Description: Top-Down-Design 53 --
4 Implementation and Application 64 --
4.1 Differentiation between Modeling and Implementation 64 --
4.2 The Bubble-World 65 --
4.3 Applying the Model 67 --
4.4 Possible Future Benefits for the Humanities 69 --
Part II Proceedings of Emulating the Mind (ENF 2007) 75 --
1 Session 1 76 --
1.1 A Brief Overview of Artificial Intelligence Focusing on Computational Models of Emotions 76 --
1.2 Considering a Technical Realization of a Neuropsychoanalytical Model of the Mind --
A Theoretical Framework 99 --
1.3 What is the \"Mind\"? A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Approach 115 --
1.4 Discussion Chaired by Authors 123 --
2 Session 2 124 --
2.1 Machines in the Ghost 124 --
2.2 Simulating the Primal Affective Mentalities of the Mammalian Brain: A Fugue on the Emotional Feelings of Mental Life and Implications for AI-Robotics 149 --
2.3 Discussion Chaired by Authors 177 --
3 Session 3 178 --
3.1 Cognitive and Affective Automation: Machines Using the Psychoanalytic Model of the Human Mind 178 --
3.2 Issues at the Interface of Artificial Intelligence and Psychoanalysis: Emotion, Consciousness, Transference 227 --
3.3 Discussion Chaired by Authors 237 --
4 Session 4 239 --
4.1 The Prometheus Phantasy --
Functions of the Human Psyche for Technical Systems 239 --
4.2 Return of the Zombie --
Neuropsychoanalysis, Consciousness, and the Engineering of Psychic Functions 251 --
4.3 Discussion Chaired by Authors 259 --
5 Discussion Sessions 260 --
5.1 Psychoanalysis and Computer Engineering 260 --
5.2 The Mammal in the Machine 262 --
5.3 The Remembering Body 264 --
5.4 Emotions, Drives and Desire (Silicone in Love) 266 --
5.5 Getting A Grasp 268 --
5.6 Free Will 271 --
Part III Responses to the ENF 2007 274 --
1 Introductory Words 275 --
2 Collected Papers 277 --
2.1 A Computational Model of Affects 277 --
2.2 The Physics of Thoughts 290 --
2.3 A Functional View on \"Cognitive\" Perceptual Systems Based on Functions and Principles of the Human Mind 302 --
2.4 Four Laws of Machine Psychodynamics 320 --
2.5 Artificial Group Mind, a Psychoanalytically Founded Thought Experiment 332 --
2.6 Artificial Group Psychodynamics: Emergence of the Collective 347 --
2.7 A Primer of Psychoanalysis for Alan Turing 367 --
2.8 Alexander R. Luria and the Theory of Functional Systems 381 --
2.9 A Mind for Resolving the Interior-Exterior Distinctions 394 --
2.10 The Vision, Revisited 399 --
Part IV Explanations for Engineers and Psychoanalysts 416.