The potential for consciousness of artificial systems

International Journal of Machine Consciousness

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-223

  Gamez, David ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese Room; correlates of consciousness; Machine consciousness; science; synthetic phenomenology; thought experiment; type I, type II

Indexed keywords

CHINESE ROOM; CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS; MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS; SCIENCE; SYNTHETIC PHENOMENOLOGY; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS; TYPE I, TYPE II;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79960705226     PISSN: 17938430     EISSN: 17938473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793843009000190     Document Type: Article

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