In particular, Closner has worked
on a few projects aiming to develop joint venture agreements with aboriginal entities in America that primarily involved working with various financial institutions to help customers with financing issues, in order to get a project under way.
I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a
few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a
project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate
aim of which is to determine — based
on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»