intentional action

Attention and Consciousness in Intentional Action: Steps Toward Rich Artificial Agency
We argue that the insights offered by the literature on agency and intentional action motivate a particular kind of computational cognitive architecture and present an attention-driven cognitive system as first steps toward an architecture to support the type of agency that rich human–machine interaction will undoubtedly demand.
Paul F. Bello, Will Bridewell
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Artificial Agency Requires Attention: The Case of Intentional Action
We claim that intentional action requires some analog of consciousness.
Paul F. Bello, Kevin O'Neill, Will Bridewell
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