A scientific perspective on the hard problem of consciousness

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 493-505

  Samsonovich, Alexei V ^a   Ascoli, Giorgio A ^a   Morowitz, Harold ^a   Layne Kalbfleisch, M ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive mapping; computational consciousness; Scientific method

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION THEORY;

COGNITIVE MAPPING; COGNITIVE MAPS; COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS; FIRST PERSON; HARD PROBLEMS; MEASURING TECHNIQUE; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL OBJECTS; SCIENTIFIC METHOD; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 80052079800     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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