@misc{cogprints2460,
          volume = {10},
          number = {4-5},
           title = {Can a machine be conscious? How?
},
          author = {Stevan Harnad},
            year = {2003},
           pages = {69--75},
         journal = {Journal of Consciousness Studies},
        keywords = {artificial intelligence, consciousness, Turing Test, mind/body problem, other-mind problem, artificial life},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/2460/},
        abstract = {A "machine" is any causal physical system, hence we are machines, hence machines can be conscious. The question is: which kinds of machines can be conscious? Chances are that robots that can pass the Turing Test -- completely indistinguishable from us in their behavioral capacities -- can be conscious (i.e. feel), but we can never be sure (because of the "other-minds" problem). And we can never know HOW they have minds, because of the "mind/body" problem. We can only know how they pass the Turing Test, but not how, why or whether that makes them feel.}
}

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