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Appearances can be deceiving: critical notice of consciousness and robot sentience

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posted on 2023-06-08, 18:11 authored by Ron ChrisleyRon Chrisley
A critique of some central themes in Pentti Haikonen's recent book, Consciousness and Robot Sentience, is offered. Haikonen maintains that the crucial question concerning consciousness is how the inner workings of the brain or an artificial system can appear, not as inner workings, but as subjective experience. It is argued here that Haikonen's own account fails to answer this question, and that the question is not in fact the right one to ask anyway. It is argued that making the required changes to the question reveals an important lacuna in Haikonen's explanation of consciousness.

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  • Published

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Journal

International Journal of Machine Consciousness

ISSN

1793-8473

Publisher

World Scientific

Issue

1

Volume

6

Page range

13-20

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  • Engineering and Design Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2014-09-04

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2014-09-04

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