Empirically grounded claims about consciousness in computers

International Journal of Machine Consciousness

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 421-438

  Gamez, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

analytical engine; Correlates of consciousness; experiments; functionalism; information integration; Turing machine

Indexed keywords

CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS; FUNCTIONALISM; HUMAN BRAIN; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; PHYSICAL WORLD; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

TURING MACHINES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84872713247     PISSN: 17938430     EISSN: 17938473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793843012400240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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