Pitfalls in biological computing: Canonical and idiosyncratic dysfunction of conscious machines

Mind and Matter

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-113

  Wallace, Rodrick ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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