Machine consciousness, sentience and mind Artificial intelligence
1 machine consciousness, sentience , mind 1.1 consciousness 1.2 computationalism , functionalism 1.3 strong ai hypothesis 1.4 robot rights machine consciousness, sentience , mind if ai system replicates key aspects of human intelligence, system sentient – have mind has conscious experiences? question closely related philosophical problem nature of human consciousness, referred hard problem of consciousness. consciousness computationalism , functionalism computationalism position in philosophy of mind human mind or human brain (or both) information processing system , thinking form of computing. computationalism argues relationship between mind , body similar or identical relationship between software , hardware , may solution mind-body problem. philosophical position inspired work of ai researchers , cognitive scientists in 1960s , proposed philosophers jerry fodor , hilary putnam. strong ai hypothesis the philosophical position john searle has named strong ai states: appropriately ...