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Appearances can be deceiving: critical notice of consciousness and robot sentience
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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International Journal of Machine ConsciousnessISSN
1793-8473Publisher
World ScientificExternal DOI
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1Volume
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13-20Department affiliated with
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2014-09-04First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
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