Designing conscious systems

Cognitive Computation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-28

  Aleksander, Igor ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conscious robots; Machine consciousness; Phenomenology; Virtual machines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL WORK; MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS; MENTAL STATE; PHENOMENOLOGY; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

EID: 77549086326     PISSN: 18669956     EISSN: 18669964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-009-9008-9     Document Type: Article

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