Could A Robot Have A Subjective Point Of View?

Author: Kiverstein, Julian1

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 14, Number 7, 2007 , pp. 127-139(13)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

Abstract:

Scepticism about the possibility of machine consciousness comes in at least two forms. Some argue that our neurobiology is special, and only something sharing our neurobiology could be a subject of experience. Others argue that a machine couldn't be anything else but a zombie: there could never be something it is like to be a machine. I advance a dynamic sensorimotor account of consciousness which argues against both these varieties of scepticism.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Email: J.Kiverstein@ed.ac.uk

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