Review of consciousness and the possibility of conscious robots

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 68-84

  Long, Lyle N ^a   Kelley, Troy D ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CONSCIOUS MACHINES; CURRENT PACE; DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATION; HUMAN BRAIN; HUMAN MIND; HYBRID PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; INPUT/OUTPUT; MOORE'S LAW; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77949351969     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 15429423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.46188     Document Type: Article

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