The strength of weak artificial consciousness

International Journal of Machine Consciousness

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-82

  Seth, Anil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

artificial life; explanatory correlate; strong artificial consciousness; Weak artificial consciousness

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; COGNITIVE PROSTHESIS; EMPIRICAL DATA; EXPLANATORY CORRELATE; NEURAL MECHANISMS; STRONG ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS; SYNTHETIC MODELS; WEAK FORM;

EID: 70349253933     PISSN: 17938430     EISSN: 17938473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793843009000086     Document Type: Article

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