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From:  (David Stodolsky)
Subject: robot-consciousness
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 95 13:38:38 +0200 (CET DST)


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psycoloquy.95.6.11.robot-consciousness.6.rickert   Sunday 30 April 1995
ISSN 1055-0143        (14 paragraphs, 1 table, 7 references, 218 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
                Copyright 1995 Neil W. Rickert

                A  COMPUTER IS NOT AN AUTOMATON
                Book Review of Bringsjord on Robot-Consciousness

                Neil W. Rickert
                Department of Computer Science
                Northern Illinois University
                DeKalb, IL 60115
                email: 

    ABSTRACT: Bringsjord has tightened up many of the arguments against
    computer intelligence. In arguing against AI consciousness, his
    main emphasis has been on showing that a person is not an
    automaton. I will argue that a computer is not an automaton either,
    and that therefore his book does not settle the question of
    computer consciousness.

David S. Stodolsky, PhD,  Euromath Center,  University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. 
 Tel.: +45 38 33 03 30. Fax: +45 38 33 88 80. (C)


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