The method of artificial systems

This document is written with the intention to describe in detail a method and means by which a computer program can reason about the world and in so doing, increase its analogue to a living system. As the literature is rife and it is apparent we, as scientists and engineers, have not found the solution, this document will attempt the solution by grounding its intellectual arguments within tenets of human cognition in Western philosophy. The result will be a characteristic description of a method to describe an artificial system analogous to that performed for a human. The approach was the substance of my Master’s thesis, explored more deeply during the course of my postdoc research. It focuses primarily on context awareness and choice set within a boundary of available epistemology, which serves to describe it. Expanded upon, such a description strives to discover agreement with Kant’s critique of reason to understand how it could be applied to define the architecture of its design. The intention has never been to mimic human or biological systems, rather, to understand the profoundly fundamental rules, when leveraged correctly, results in an artificial consciousness as noumenon while in keeping with the perception of it as phenomenon. The natural progression, then, would be to discover what would be the substance of its implementation. As it is also interesting to determine the sense of will—as a clarification to the transcendental aesthetic, the concept of body as feedback mechanism will be discussed as to what influence upon the design there may be. Ultimately, this document will demonstrate using such techniques will allow an empirical ethically-traceable framework where behaviour eccentricities can be known in advance by classification of pathway logic and attenuated on a scale such that a formal definition as to its type can be revealed. The revelation is then, in itself, a rational system.