Alain Cardon is Professor of Computer Science specializing in artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness. Retired from the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, he now leads research at Laboratoire d'informatique, de traitement de l'information et des systèmes at INSA de Rouen.

• Table of Definitions viiIntroduction ixChapter 1. The Organizational Architecture of the Psychic System and the Feeling of Thinking 11.1. The problem of the study of thought 21.2. The interpretation of neuronal aggregates 51.3. The function of the architecture of the Freudian model 71.4. The specific characteristics of the components of the system using a constructivist approach 141.5. The systemic layer and the regulators 261.6. The mental landscape 351.7. The feeling of thinking and the general organizational principle 451.8. The aim and the space of the regulators 551.9. The attractors 671.10. The generation of a representation 741.11. Unification between regulators and neuronal aggregates: the morphological model of the generating forms 781.12. The morphological and semantic conformation of the psychic system 861.13. The processing component of the visual sense with generating forms 911.14. The decisive intention to think 971.15. Linguistic capacity in the human conscious 1011.16. An assessment of the functioning of the human psychic system 109Chapter 2. The Computer Representation of an Artificial Consciousness 1132.1. A multiagent design to generate an artificial psychic system 1142.2. Designing the artificial psychic system using a multiagent approach 1222.3. Self-control of the artificial psychic system using regulator agents 1282.4. The organizational architecture of the system 1332.5. Organizational memory and artificial experience 1422.6. Affective and tendential states of the system  1542.7. The production of representations and the sensation of thinking  1612.7.1. Algorithm for the intentional production of a series of representations around a specific theme 1632.8. The feeling of existing 1762.9. The representation of the things and the apprehension of temporality 1812.10. Multisystem deployment 1862.11. The final fate of systems endowed with artificial consciousness 194Conclusion 197Bibliography 201Index 205