TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints2460
UR  - http://cogprints.org/2460/
A1  - Harnad, Stevan
Y1  - 2003///
N2  - 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.
KW  - artificial intelligence
KW  -  consciousness
KW  -  Turing Test
KW  -  mind/body problem
KW  -  other-mind problem
KW  -  artificial life
TI  - Can a machine be conscious? How?

SP  - 69
AV  - public
EP  - 75
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