In:Consciousness Evolving
Edited by James H. Fetzer
[Advances in Consciousness Research 34] 2002
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 8 April 2002
https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.34.toc
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Table of contents
Contributorsix
Introductionxiii
Prologue1
Turing indistinguishability and the blind watchmaker
Part I: Natural consciousness19
Consciousness, adaptation and epiphenomenalism
The functions of consciousness
Sensations and grain processes
Part II: Special adaptations87
Evolution, consciousness, and the language of thought
Why did evolution engineer consciousness?
Nothing without mind
Part III: Artificial consciousness161
The emergence of grounded representations: The power and limits of sensory-motor coordination
Ago Ergo Sum
Evolving robot consciousness: The easy problems and the rest
Epilogue221
The future with cloning: On the possibility of serial immortality
Subject index
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