A Conscious Architecture: An Initial Description

One of the most interesting questions in the field of artificial intelligent agents is whether it is feasible to design and implement software agent architectures that can emulate consciousness characteristics. The paper illustrates an agent architecture that builds on top of the BDI paradigm a consciousness feature by exploiting and embedding the Global Workspace and the Executive System Theories in an architecture that we named CARA (Conscious Agent Reasoning Architecture). The whole architecture is described together with the prototype implementation of a case study inspired by the “Ticket to Ride” table game.