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Conscious machines: Defining questions

Olivia Carter, Jakob Hohwy, Jeroen J A Van Boxtel, Victor A. F. Lamme, Ned Block, Christof Koch, Naotsugu Tsuchiya

Science January 25, 2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aar4163 (opens in new tab)

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Keywords Consciousness Epistemology Ask price Cognitive science
Citations 86
Key points Argues that Dehaene et al. ask and answer the wrong questions about machine consciousness.

Abstract

In their Review “What is consciousness, and could machines have it?” (27 October 2017, p. [486][1]), S. Dehaene et al. argue that the science of consciousness indicates that we are not on the verge of creating conscious machines. However, Dehaene et al. ask and answer the wrong questions. To