Andrzej BULLER
Machine Psychodynamics:
Toward Emergent Thought
Abstract:This report outlines machine psychodynamics - a paradigm of building
brains for robots intended to achieve a human-level intelligence. Machine
psychodynamics admits that a target robot is to develop its cognitive structure by
itself. What is novelty is that the self-development is to be reinforced by pleasure
understood as a measurable quantity that rises when a bodily or psychic tension
plummets. Machine psychodynamics also proposes that some ambivalence may
accelerate a robot's cognitive growth. Mechanisms for pleasure generation and
ambivalence jointly make a psychodynamic robot an adventurous creature. A quest of
machine intentionality is also addressed and the notion of proto-intentionality
proposed.
Keywords: Human-level intelligence, machine psychodynamics, pleasure,
adventurousness, ambivalence, proto-intentionality.