The requirements and possibilities of creating conscious systems

AIAA Infotech at Aerospace Conference and Exhibit and AIAA Unmanned...Unlimited Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

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

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Human Research and Engineering Directorate   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

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

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 77958498587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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