%A Stevan Harnad
%J Journal of Consciousness Studies
%T Can a machine be conscious? How?

%X 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.
%N 4-5
%K artificial intelligence, consciousness, Turing Test, mind/body problem, other-mind problem, artificial life
%P 69-75
%V 10
%D 2003
%L cogprints2460

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