On Negation-Based Conscious Agent

Abstract

We first introduce three ideas related with human mind: Brooks implies that in spite of recent success in Alife and behave-based AI, a fundamental problem in modeling biology is consciousness. Minsky states that negative knowledge appears in seemingly positive knowledge through suppression, and emotions are double negative. Cohen suggests that origin of knowledge relies on schema, and a behavior-based agent can learn a physical schema directly from environment. We propose that certain emotion and knowledge seem to exist together and thus there might be a developmental path from emotion to knowledge during evolution. Next, we propose that negation is a logical schema, which allows an agent to perceive a physical schema itself. Finally, we show that negation and emotion both using suppression and negation can be bases for generating emotions. Negation seems the first distinction for knowledge and might be near the locus of consciousness.