Research focused on discovering the reasons for consciousness in higher mammals and why biology evolved this system for controlling complex organisms.
To use these principles for guiding the architecture of Adaptive Learning Robot Controllers.
In 2001, Dr. Goodman, along with Christof Koch, David Chalmers, and Owen Holland, organized the first-ever conference on Machine Consciousness at the Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, bringing together biologists, engineers, ethicists, and philosophers to discuss the question, "Can a machine be conscious?"