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abstract: "Building on Bringsjord's (1992, 1994) and Searle's (1992) work, I take it for granted that computational systems cannot be conscious. In order to discuss the possibility that they might be able to pass refined versions of the Turing Test, I consider three possible relationships between consciousness and control systems in human-level adaptive agents."
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  - family: Tirassa
    given: Maurizio
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date: 1994
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keywords: Consciousness; Artificial intelligence; Robots; Control systems; Evolution
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  Bringsjord, S. (1992) What robots can and can't be. Boston: Kluwer Academic.
  Bringsjord, S. (1994) Précis of: What robots can and can't be. PSYCOLOQUY 5(59) robot-consciousness.1. bringsjord.
  Harnad, S. (1991) Other bodies, other minds: A machine incarnation of an old philosophical problem. Minds and Machines 1:43-54.
  Newell, A. (1990) Unified theories of cognition. Boston: Harvard University Press.
  Pylyshyn, Z.W. (1984) Computation and cognition. Boston: MIT Press.
  Searle, J.R. (1992) The rediscovery of the mind. Boston: MIT Press.
  Turing, A.M. (1950) Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind 59:433-460.
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  - bio-ani-cog
  - Psycoloquy
  - cog-psy
  - phil-mind
  - comp-sci-art-intel
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title: Is consciousness necessary to high-level control systems?
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