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Evolving Robot Consciousness: The Easy Problems and the Rest
A collection of stimulating studies on the past, the present, and the future of consciousness, Consciousness Evolving contributes to understanding some of the most important conceptual problems of our time. The advent of the modern synthesis together with the human genome project affords a platform for considering what it is that makes humans distinctive. Beginning with an essay that accents the nature of the problem within a behavioristic framework and concluding with reflections on the prospects for a form of immortality through serial cloning, the chapters are divided into three sections, which concern how and why consciousness may have evolved, special capacities involving language, creativity, and mentality as candidates for evolved adaptations, and the prospects for artificial evolution though the design of robots with specific forms of consciousness and mind. This volume should appeal to every reader who wants to better understand the human species, including its distinctive properties and its place in nature.
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J.H. BenjaminsPublisher URL
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34Page range
205-219Book title
Evolving ConsciousnessISBN
9027251541Series
Advances in Consciousness ResearchDepartment affiliated with
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James H FetzerLegacy Posted Date
2012-02-06Usage metrics
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