Strategies for measuring machine consciousness

International Journal of Machine Consciousness

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-201

  Arrabales, Raúl ^a   Ledezma, Agapito ^a   Sanchis, Araceli ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

consciousness metrics; easy problems; hard problem; Measures of consciousness

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CONSCIOUSNESS METRICS; EASY PROBLEMS; HARD PROBLEM; LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS; MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS; MEASURES OF CONSCIOUSNESS; MEASURING MACHINES; PRACTICAL ISSUES; STATE OF THE ART;

EID: 80052103742     PISSN: 17938430     EISSN: 17938473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793843009000177     Document Type: Review

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