Awareness of existence. vid. Self-awareness
Good summary: consciousness_life3.0_max_tegmark.pdf
I think it is much easier to create a system that exhibits the behaviours of a conscious being, which actually has consciousness, than to create a philosophical zombie.
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
06 Neural Correlates 1. Se Max Tegmark's book Life 3.0, the chapter at the end where he talks about experiments to determine the origin of consciousness; some scribbles in my notebook. Basically an issue of Causal inference with fundamental stumbling blocks.
David Chalmers
Consciousness problably doesn't have any evolutionary advantage. The only explanation then would be that it is very difficult to have intelligence without consciousness. If that is the case, one expectes increasingly intelligent machines to be increasingly conscious.
http://centerforsleepandconsciousness.med.wisc.edu/publications.html
The Sciences of Consciousness: Progress and Problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHkfmeU7Wo – Kurzsgesagtz video nice intro into the origins/evolution of consciousness (which btw I think is a good roadmap to develop Artificial intelligence.
States of consciousness
Altered state of consciousness
Integrated information theory
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Integrated_information_theory
Why I Am Not An Integrated Information Theorist (or, The Unconscious Expander)
The Problem with Phi: A Critique of Integrated Information Theory
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-criticisms-of-Tononi%E2%80%99s-Integrated-Information-Theory
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823
http://motls.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/consciousness-trouble-with-tononis.html
Harvard scientists think they might have pinpointed the source of human consciousness
Taking Time Seriously in Tononi's Integrated Information Theory
Synthetic consciousness: the distributed adaptive control perspective
Prof. Schmidhuber - The Problems of AI Consciousness and Unsupervised Learning Are Already Solved