States of Consciousness

From AGIRI.org

Subjective consciousness comes in many different varieties, as all of us know.

Modern science has not paid much attention to ontologizing these states; Buddhist psychology, for example, did a far more thorough job. Among modern thinkers, Charles Tart has perhaps explored this domain most effectively:

http://www.psychedelic-library.org/soccont.htm

This page, for now, lists a few of the more obviously different states of consciousness.

Whether an AGI will experience (even roughly) the same states of consciousness as a human remains definitively unknown.

Mind Ontology Links

Mind Ontology
Supercategory: Subjective Consciousness
Subcategory: Ordinary Waking Consciousness
Subcategory: Dreaming
Subcategory: Non-Dreaming Sleep
Subcategory: Creative Inspiration
Subcategory: Meditative Consciousness
Subcategory: Psychedelic Consciousness

Links

• Allan Combs book Radiance of Being: http://www.amazon.com/Radiance-Being-Understanding-Integral-Vision/dp/155778812X