This review critically examines neuroscience-inspired frameworks for artificial consciousness, exploring their alignment with prevailing theories of human consciousness. Biological consciousness is inherently tied to the neural architecture of the brain, but machine consciousness would likely arise from the interaction of algorithms, data, and hardware. In this introductory paper, i outline a long-term research program to study machine consciousness from the perspective of collective intelligence grounded in the philosophical framework of computational …

Secondly, upon presenting a path to the emergence of machine consciousness, the novel ethical perspective robocentrism was introduced, and a discussion followed on how such a potentiality … The core idea of this paper is that artificial consciousnessâ€though not the appear-ance of conscious behaviorâ€may only be possible with structural innovations in computer hardware and software.