Functionalism, integrity, and digital consciousness.
The prospect of consciousness in artificial systems is closely tied to the viability of functionalism about consciousness. Even if consciousness arises from the abstract functional relationships between the parts of a system, it does not follow that any digital system that implements the right funct...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 203; no. 2; pp. 1 - 21 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2024
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