It seems to me that Piaget's ideas on intellectual development are at the same time ideas as to the emergence of conscious experience, both depending on an interplay between the relations of schemes with external objects-of-knowing and the relations of schemes with one another.   (For some aspects of this, see: Reconsidering the role of overcoming perturbations in cognitive development: constructivism and consciousness
Human Development 2004;47:77-93.   Available on line at  DOI: 10.1159/000076249)

That would mean that Piagetian approaches to artificial intelligence may also have implications regarding artificial phenomenal consciousness.  Indeed, I think one important contribution of Piagetian ideas could be to bring the relation between the two (intelligence and consciousness) more into focus than is common in AI--although that does not seem to be happening.   Perhaps, it is an unwillingness to completely divorce the two that has some people saying that the intelligence is in the programmer.

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(by Joe Becker)

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