Quantity of experience: Brain-duplication and degrees of consciousness

Minds and Machines

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 185-200

  Bostrom, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chalmers; Computation; Consciousness; Deterministic; Duplication; Fading qualia; Implementation; Mind; Probabilistic; Program; Searle

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

BRAIN DUPLICATION; CHALMERS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FADING QUALIA; MIND;

BRAIN;

EID: 33750155185     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-006-9036-0     Document Type: Article

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