@article {Harnad:2003:1355-8250:67, author = "Harnad S.", title = "Can a Machine Be Conscious? How?", journal = "Journal of Consciousness Studies", volume = "10", year = "2003", abstract = "Asking whether a machine can be conscious is rather like asking whether one has stopped beating one's wife: The question is so heavy with assumptions that either answer would be incriminating! The answer, of course, is: It depends entirely on what you mean by 'machine'! If you mean the current generation of man-made devices (toasters, ovens, cars, computers, today's robots), the answer is: almost certainly not.", pages = "67-75(9)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2003/00000010/F0020004/1347" }