Machine free will: Is free will a necessary ingredient of machine consciousness?

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 718, Issue , 2011, Pages 181-191

  Manzotti, Riccardo ^a  

^a IULM UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPISTEMOLOGY; FREEDOM; HUMAN; MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; TEMPORAL ATOMISM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 83455196203     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0164-3_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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