Machine Consciousness

Owen Holland, Editor

From the toaster that burns our breakfast to the video recorder that wipes out our favorite movie, we've all had that feeling that a machine is out to get us. So can a machine really be conscious? Can it have feelings? Well, even the humble thermostat knows when it gets too hot—and it can do something about it too. But can a machine think thoughts? Does it have a personality? How would you know? Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies (Vol.10, No.4-5, 2003).

Table of Contents

• Owen Holland, "Editorial Introduction"
• Igor Aleksander & Barry Dunmall, "Axioms and Tests for the Presence of Minimal Consciousness in Agents"
• Susan Blackmore, "Consciousness in Meme Machines"
• Rodney M.J. Cotterill, "CyberChild: A Simulation Test-Bed for Consciousness Studies"
• Stan Franklin, "IDA: A Conscious Artifact?"
• Stevan Harnad, "Can a Machine Be Conscious? How?"
• Owen Holland & Rod Goodman, "Robots With Internal Models: A Route to Machine Consciousness?"
• Jesse J. Prinz, "Level-Headed Mysterianism and Artificial Experience"
• Aaron Sloman & Ron Chrisley, "Virtual Machines and Consciousness"
• Luc Steels, "Language Re-Entrance and the ‘Inner Voice’"
• William Irwin Thompson, "The Borg or Borges?"

· ISBN 0-907845-24-X · Published in June 2003 by Imprint Academic · Paperback · 192 pages · $29.90 ·

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