Machine Consciousness and Machine Intelligence are not simply new buzzwords
that occupy our imagination. Over the last decades, we witness an unprecedented
rise in attempts to create machines with human-like features and capabilities.
However, despite widespread sympathy and abundant funding, progress in these
enterprises is far from being satisfactory.
For the most of my life, I have earned my living as a computer vision
professional busy with image processing tasks and problems. In the computer
vision community there is a widespread belief that artificial vision systems
faithfully replicate human vision abilities or at least very closely mimic
them. It was a great surprise to me when one day I have realized that computer
and human vision have next to nothing in common.