Artificial Beings -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Terminology -- Chapter 1. Presenting the Actors -- 1.1. The book -- 1.2. Human and artificial beings -- 1.3. The computer -- 1.4. The author -- 1.5. CAIA, an artificial AI scientist -- 1.6. The research domains of CAIA -- 1.7. Further reading -- Chapter 2. Consciousness and Conscience -- 2.1. Several meanings of "consciousness" -- 2.2. Extending the meaning of "conscience" for artificial beings -- 2.3. Why is it useful to build conscious artificial beings with a conscience? -- 2.4. Towards an artificial cognition -- 2.4.1. A new kind of consciousness -- 2.4.2. A new kind of conscience -- Chapter 3. What Does "Itself" Mean for an Artificial Being? -- 3.1. Various versions of an individual -- 3.1.1. The concept of an individual for human beings -- 3.1.2. The boundaries of an artificial being -- 3.1.3. Passive and active versions of an individual -- 3.1.4. Reflexivity -- 3.2. Variants of an individual -- 3.2.1. An individual changes with time -- 3.2.2. Learning by comparing two variants -- 3.2.3. Genetic algorithms -- 3.2.4. The bootstrap -- 3.3. Cloning artificial beings -- 3.3.1. Cloning an artificial being is easy -- 3.3.2. Cloning artificial beings is useful -- 3.4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- 3.5. The Society of Mind -- 3.6. More on the subject -- Chapter 4. Some Aspects of Consciousness -- 4.1. Six aspects of consciousness -- 4.1.1. One is in an active state -- 4.1.2. One knows what one is doing -- 4.1.3. One examines his/its internal state -- 4.1.4. One knows what one knows -- 4.1.5. One has a model of oneself -- 4.1.6. One knows that one is different from the other individuals -- 4.2. Some limits of consciousness -- 4.2.1. Some limits of consciousness for man -- 4.2.2. Some limits of consciousness for artificial beings -- Chapter 5. Why is Auto-observation Useful?.

5.1. Auto-observation while carrying out a task -- 5.1.1. To guide toward the solution -- 5.1.2. To avoid dangerous situations -- 5.1.3. To detect mistakes -- 5.1.4. To find where one has been clumsy -- 5.1.5. To generate a trace -- 5.2. Auto-observation after the completion of a task -- 5.2.1. Creation of an explanation -- 5.2.2. Using an explanation -- 5.2.3. Finding anomalies -- Chapter 6. How to Observe Oneself -- 6.1. Interpreting -- 6.2. Adding supplementary orders -- 6.3. Using timed interruptions -- 6.4. Using the interruptions made by the operating system -- 6.5. Knowing its own state -- 6.6. Examining its own knowledge -- 6.7. The agents of the Society of Mind -- 6.8. The attention -- 6.9. What is "I" -- Chapter 7. The Conscience -- 7.1. The conscience of human beings -- 7.2. The conscience of an artificial being -- 7.3. Laws for artificial beings -- 7.3.1. Asimov's laws of robotics -- 7.3.1. How can moral laws be implemented? -- 7.3.3. The present situation -- Chapter 8. Implementing a Conscience -- 8.1. Why is a conscience helpful? -- 8.1.1. The conscience helps to solve problems -- 8.1.2. The conscience helps to manage its life -- 8.1.3. Two ways to define moral knowledge -- 8.1.4. Who benefits from the conscience of an artificial being? -- 8.2. The conscience of CAIA -- 8.3. Implicit principles -- 8.4. Explicit principles -- 8.5. The consciences in a society of individuals -- 8.5.1. The Society of Mind -- 8.5.2. Genetic algorithms -- Chapter 9. Around the Conscience -- 9.1. Emotions -- 9.2. Changing its conscience -- 9.3. A new human conscience for our relationships with artificial beings -- Chapter 10. What is the Future for CAIA? -- Appendices -- 1. Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- 2. How to implement some aspects of consciousness -- Bibliography -- Index.