@article {Haikonen:2007:1355-8250:72, author = "Haikonen, Pentti O.A.", title = "Essential Issues of Conscious Machines", journal = "Journal of Consciousness Studies", volume = "14", year = "2007", abstract = "The development of conscious machines faces a number of difficult issues such as the apparent immateriality of mind, qualia and self-awareness. Also consciousness-related cognitive processes such as perception, imagination, motivation and inner speech are a technical challenge. It is foreseen that the development of machine consciousness would call for a system approach; the developer of conscious machines should consider complete systems that integrate the cognitive processes seamlessly and process information in a transparent way with representational and non-representational information-processing modes. An overview of the main issues is given and some possible solutions are outlined.", pages = "72-84(13)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2007/00000014/00000007/art00005" }