Robots, Zombies and Us: Understanding Consciousness

by Robert Kirk

Book Overview

Could robots be genuinely intelligent? Could they be conscious? Could there be zombies? Prompted by these questions Robert Kirk introduces the main problems of consciousness and sets out a new approach to solving them.

He starts by discussing behaviourism, Turing's test of intelligence and Searle's famous Chinese Room argument, and goes on to examine dualism - the idea that consciousness requires something beyond the physical - together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474286593
• ISBN13: 9781474286596
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"