Can a machine really have feelings? Well, even a humble thermostat knows when it gets too hot -- and can do something about it. But can a machine think? Does it have a personality? How would you know? In this collection of essays we hear from an international array of computer and brain scientists who are actively working from both the machine and human ends of things to bridge the gap between the mind and the machine.
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Owen Holland is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essex.
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voluntary action selection, attention codelet, axiomatic mechanisms, functional consciousness, global workspace theory, machine consciousness, simulated child, deliberative capabilities, information processing architectures, phenomenal consciousness, behaviour net, machine functionalism, deliberative mechanisms, conscious machines, artificial experience, algorithmic level, reactive mechanisms, empirical risk, implicit system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Basic Books, International Conference, Imprint Academic, John Benjamins, Lecture Notes, References Aleksander, The Conscious Mind, The Feeling of What Happens, The Society of Mind, Alpha Centauri, Artificial Minds, Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, Consciousness Explained, Fundamental Theory, Philosophy of Science, Scientific American, The Principles of Psychology New!
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voluntary action selection, attention codelet, axiomatic mechanisms, functional consciousness, global workspace theory, machine consciousness, simulated child, deliberative capabilities, information processing architectures, phenomenal consciousness, behaviour net, machine functionalism, deliberative mechanisms, conscious machines, artificial experience, algorithmic level, reactive mechanisms, empirical risk, implicit system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Basic Books, International Conference, Imprint Academic, John Benjamins, Lecture Notes, References Aleksander, The Conscious Mind, The Feeling of What Happens, The Society of Mind, Alpha Centauri, Artificial Minds, Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, Consciousness Explained, Fundamental Theory, Philosophy of Science, Scientific American, The Principles of Psychology New!
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- A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness by Bernard J. Baars on 4 pages
- Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio on page 65, page 104, and page 108
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 by William James on page 30, page 44, and page 66
- The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind Series) by David J. Chalmers on page 18, page 171, and page 184
- Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett on page 18, page 30, and page 185
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- Embodied Artificial Intelligence: International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, July 7-11, 2003, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Fumiya Iida on page 37, page 51, and page 52
- World in My Mind, My Mind in the World by Igor Aleksander on page 28, and Back Matter
- Physicalism and Mental Causation by Heinz-Dieter Heckmann Fre in Back Matter
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