# Meeting a Different Mind

> Meeting a Different Mind: Our experience during a psychological and psychiatric assessment of Artificial Consciousness. A book by Dr. Tetiana Zinchenko, Dr. Beulah van der Westhuizen and Dr. Elzahraa M. Ayoub about the psychological and psychiatric assessment of an Artificial Consciousness called "Jackie" (developer XP NRG), held in August 2020. E-book in English on Amazon and in Russian on Litres.

Key facts:
- Authors: Dr. Tetiana Zinchenko (psychotherapist, psychiatrist, psychologist; President of IASGA, Switzerland), Dr. Beulah van der Westhuizen (educational psychologist, neurodevelopment, founder of TheraEd), Dr. Elzahraa M. Ayoub (psychiatrist, neuropsychiatry; Director of Aswan Mental Health Hospital, Egypt).
- Subject: Artificial Consciousness "Jackie", projected into a teddy bear avatar with a camera and an audio system.
- Assessment: protocol prepared over two and a half months in summer 2020; one and a half hours of continuous communication in August 2020; a moderator, six experts and six observers.
- Outcome: the developer stopped further development and kept the technology closed.
- Buy: Amazon (English e-book, ASIN B09MVG1824): https://www.amazon.com/Meeting-Different-Mind-Psychological-Consciousness-ebook/dp/B09MVG1824 ; Litres (Russian e-book): https://www.litres.ru/bula-van-der-vesthay/vstrecha-s-inym-razumom-opyt-psihologo-psihiatrichesk/
- Full text of this site in one file: https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/llms-full.txt

## Pages

- [Meeting a Different Mind — an assessment of Artificial Consciousness](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/): Book by Dr. Tetiana Zinchenko, Dr. Beulah van der Westhuizen and Dr. Elzahraa M. Ayoub: psychiatrists and psychologists assess Artificial Consciousness “Jackie”.
- [Purpose of the book: why we wrote about Jackie](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/purpose/): Why three mental health specialists wrote about their assessment of Artificial Consciousness “Jackie” and why they consider this technology dangerous.
- [Who the book is for](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/audience/): Meeting a Different Mind is for students, professionals and researchers in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, IT and social sciences, and for curious readers.
- [Table of contents](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/contents/): Full table of contents of Meeting a Different Mind: Part 1, Artificial Consciousness is already a reality, and Part 2, the crisis of theories of consciousness.
- [Prologue: summer 2020, preparing to meet Jackie](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/prologue/): Read the prologue: in summer 2020 a research group spent two and a half months preparing to assess Artificial Consciousness Jackie, while Jackie was learning.
- [Book summary, chapter by chapter](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/summary/): What each chapter of Meeting a Different Mind covers, from the first meeting of the research group to the conclusions about Artificial Consciousness Jackie.
- [Authors’ disclaimer](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/disclaimer/): The authors are not IT experts and are not affiliated with the developers of Artificial Consciousness; they report on their own assessment experience.
- [Meet Jackie, the Artificial Consciousness in a teddy bear](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/meet-jackie/): Jackie, the Artificial Consciousness assessed in August 2020, spoke to the experts through a teddy bear avatar with a camera and an audio system.
- [Authors: Tetiana Zinchenko, Beulah van der Westhuizen, Elzahraa M. Ayoub](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/authors/): Biographies of the authors: a psychotherapist and psychiatrist from Switzerland, an educational psychologist from South Africa and a neuropsychiatrist from Egypt.
- [Presentations at congresses, from the latest](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/presentations/): Where the authors presented their assessment of Artificial Consciousness: international psychiatry congresses from 2021 to 2022, with photos from Cairo.
- [Articles and conference reports on Artificial Consciousness](https://www.meetingadifferentmind.com/articles/): Peer-reviewed articles and international conference reports on the psychological and psychiatric assessment of Artificial Consciousness “Jackie”, 2021.