The philosophical issue in machine consciousness

International Journal of Machine Consciousness 1 (1):155-176 (2009)
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The truly philosophical issue in machine conscioiusness is whether machines can have 'hard consciounsess'. Criteria for hard consciousness are higher than for phenomenal consciousness, since the latter incorporates first-person functional consciousness

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