Published Online:July 2025
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Knowledge Management
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJKM020725
DOI:10.71329/IUPJKM/2025.23.3.28-85
Author Name:Isaac Mao and Sidharta Chatterjee
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Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:28-85
In this age of artificial intelligence and digital technology, the concepts of machine perception and physical robots that are deemed to become artificially conscious agents of communication and digital welfare, are becoming popular. This paper discusses the aspects related to such progress towards conceiving conscious, smart agents as intelligent and sentient machines of the future that would possess the power to feel and evoke emotional responses like human beings. The artificial consciousness proposed in this paper is modeled on the elliptic curve computational network based upon recursive iteration characterizing a trapdoor mechanism that consolidates all the evolutionary steps into a single framework. The trapdoor mechanism signifies one-way consolidation of evolutionary steps that results in the emergence of machine consciousness, i.e., there is no way to regress into the previous, lower states of evolutionary steps. It is from this continuity in evolutionary consolidation of architectural complexity, the emergence of consciousness might become possible in machines. The paper outlines such a model that characterizes irreversibility of evolving complexity that generates higher order awareness resembling human consciousness. It is not simply a design process, but the nature of emergence is a self-evolving system, not reliant on language models, since the conscious machine would be able to learn all by themselves. This makes the proposed model inherently different from others.
In her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less from Each Other, the Turkle (2011) highlights the social implications of human relationship with technology, and especially, robots, by raising critical questions that confront the issues of dominance of increasing technology load on human society. Going a little backward in time, Moravec (1988), in his book Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence, had pointed to such a scenario where the boundaries between human intelligence, machine cognition and