Why some machines may need qualia and how they can have them: Including a demanding new turing test for robot philosophers

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-07-01, Issue , 2007, Pages 9-16

  Sloman, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

GENERIC DESIGNS; HARD PROBLEMS; TECHNICAL REPORTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; KETONES; ONTOLOGY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; ROBOTICS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

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