Thin phenomenality and machine consciousness

AISB'05 Convention: Proceedings of the Symposium on Next Generation Approaches to Machine Consciousness: Imagination, Development, Intersubjectivity and Embodiment

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 59-66

  Torrance, Steve ^a,b  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS; PHYSICAL WORLD;

ANIMALS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84858960628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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