Consciousness evolving /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2002.
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| Series: | Advances in consciousness research,
v. 34 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=86717 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : Turing indistinguishability and the blind watchmaker / Stevan Harnad
- Part I: Natural consciousness
- Consciousness, adaptation and epiphenomenalism / Tom Polger, Owen Flanagan
- The function of consciousness / David Cole
- Sensations and grain processes / George Graham, Terry Horgan
- Part II: Special adaptations
- Evolution, consciousness, and the language of thought / James W. Garson
- Why did evolution engineer consciousness? / Selmer Bringsjord, Ron Noel
- Nothing without mind / Stephen Clark
- Part III: Artificial consciousness
- The emergence of grounded representations : The power and limits of sensory- motor coordination / Stefano Nolfi, Oraxio Miglino
- Ago Ergo Sum / Dario Floreano
- Evolving robot consciousness : The easy problems and the rest / Inman Harvey
- Epilogue : The future with cloning: On the possibility of serial immortality / Neil Tennant.