The centrality of machine consciousness to machine ethics: Between realism and social-relationism

AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - The Machine Question: AI, Ethics and Moral Responsibility, Part of Alan Turing Year 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 54-60

  Torrance, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DARK MATTER; FUTURE GENERATIONS; HUMAN-MACHINE; MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS; PHYSICAL WORLD; PHYSIOLOGICAL FEATURES; SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

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