  We have defined the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) for the purpose of
investigating a Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) approach to consciousness.
For this, we have hewn to the TCS demand for simplicity and understandability.
The CTM is consequently and intentionally a simple machine. It is not a model
of the brain, though its design has greatly benefited - and continues to
benefit - from neuroscience and psychology. The CTM is a model of and for
consciousness.
  Although it is developed to understand consciousness, the CTM offers a
thoughtful and novel guide to the creation of an Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI). For example, the CTM has an enormous number of powerful
processors, some with specialized expertise, others unspecialized but poised to
develop an expertise. For whatever problem must be dealt with, the CTM has an
excellent way to utilize those processors that have the required knowledge,
ability, and time to work on the problem, even if it is not aware of which ones
these may be.
