Robots with internal models: A route to machine consciousness?

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 77-109

  Holland, Owen ^a   Goodman, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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