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abstract: Comments on David Chalmers's "hard problem" and some unsuccessful attempts to solve it.
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Harnad, S. (1998) Turing Indistinguishability and the Blind Watchmaker. In: Mulhauser, G. (ed.)
"Evolving Consciousness" Amsterdam: John Benjamins (in press)
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Hayes, P., Harnad, S., Perlis, D. & Block, N. (1992) Virtual Symposium on Virtual Mind. Minds
and Machines 2: 217-238.
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad92.virtualmind.html
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title: The Hardships of Cognitive Science
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