Consciousness and the AI Revolution - Book 2: Quest for Artificial Consciousness

Consciousness and the AI Revolution: explores one of the deepest questions in science and philosophy: What is consciousness, and can machines ever possess it? Drawing on fifteen years of spiritual inquiry and over a decade in the IT industry, Murugesan Narayanaswamy offers a fresh framework that separates consciousness itself from what he calls "consciousness-stuff"—the physical and cognitive processes that reflect but do not constitute awareness. Building on this foundation, he formulates his own triadic theory of consciousness, which unites the experiential, functional, and metaphysical dimensions of awareness into a coherent whole. This simple yet powerful distinction resolves many paradoxes that have long confounded both Western philosophy and modern neuroscience. Bridging ancient Indian thought and contemporary AI theory, the book challenges the dominant non-dualistic assumptions that blur subject and object, proposing instead a dual-layered understanding that preserves both scientific rigor and spiritual depth. Accessible yet profound, the book invites readers—from philosophers and AI researchers to spiritually inclined thinkers—to reconsider the nature of consciousness, intelligence, and reality itself.