Consciousness is no longer regarded as a problem in the PD AI of
http://www.geocities.com/mentifex/mind4th.html because we expect
the emergence of an epiphenomenon: The robot is aware of itself.
First the sensing of self, then the naming and conceptualization
of self, will create a vortex or mindstorm of associations which
as the illusion of consciousness will actually BE consciousness.
Meanwhile philosophers meet every two years in Tucson AZ USA for
"Toward a Science of Consciousness" to be held 10-15 April 2000.
http://www.imprint-academic.demon.co.uk/Tucson4/abstract.html is
a table of links to many of the abstracts of forthcoming papers.
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Alan, Andy, Bart, Bill, Dave, Doug, Drew, Hans, Harv, Jeff,
John, Jorn, Kurt, Mark, Marv, Matt, Matz, Ment, Mike, Neil,
Nick, Nils, Noam, Paul, Pete, Phil, Push, Ross, Seth, Vern.
