Chapter 8. Could a sophisticated robot develop consciousness?

Chapter 8
Could a sophisticated robot develop consciousness?

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Article outline

8.1Machines with artificial consciousness?
8.2Arguments for the possibility of conscious robots
- 8.2.1Copying (replacing the brain)
- 8.2.2The computational theory of mind (CTM)
8.3Arguments against the possibility of conscious robots
- 8.3.1Arguments based on Gӧdel’s incompleteness theorems
- 8.3.2Arguments based on Searle’s Chinese room thought experiment
- 8.3.3Arguments based on the viewpoints of dreyfus
8.4New arguments against conscious robots
- 8.4.1The multi-functionality argument
- 8.4.2Anti-complexity argument
  - 8.4.2.1Human-like artificial C^Ψ (AC^Ψ) may evolve in complex, highly sophisticated robots
  - 8.4.2.2Human C^Ψ is not related to levels of intelligence, knowledge, or brain complexity
- 8.4.3The robotic-mom thought experiment
- 8.4.4C^Ψ-Counter
- 8.4.5Live-creatures correlation
- 8.4.6The genetic-attribution hypothesis
- 8.4.7The problem of persuasion