Machine Consciousness

Can a machine really have feelings? Well, even a humble thermostat knows when it gets too hot -- and can do something about it. But can a machine think? Does it have a personality? How would you know? In this collection of essays we hear from an international array of computer and brain scientists who are actively working from both the machine and human ends of things to bridge the gap between the mind and the machine.

Contributors
Editorial Introduction	p. 1
Axioms and Tests for the Presence of Minimal Consciousness in Agents	p. 7
Consciousness in Meme Machines	p. 19
CyberChild: A Simulation Test-Bed for Consciousness Studies	p. 31
IDA: A Conscious Artifact?	p. 47
Can a Machine Be Conscious? How?	p. 67
Robots With Internal Models: A Route to Machine Consciousness?	p. 77
Level-Headed Mysterianism and Artificial Experience	p. 111
Virtual Machines and Consciousness	p. 133
Language Re-Entrance and the 'Inner Voice'	p. 173
The Borg or Borges?	p. 187
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