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Pentti O Haikonen. Second Edition. World Scientific 2019. Haikonen’s book is perfect for those interested in Machine Consciousness. This updated edition includes new ideas and insights. This completely revised second edition of Consciousness and Robot Sentience begins with the big…
Coyote. A Tale of Unexpected Consequences. An intelligent robot coyote longs to be free… Elisabeth Rhett Woods Ekstasis Editions, Sep. 2011. This book at Amazon . This science fiction novel is not about consciousness, but one of the most…
Vol. 1 of the World Scientific Series on Machine Consciousness ARISTOTLE’S LAPTOP The Discovery of our Informational Mind by Igor Aleksander (Imperial College London, UK) & Helen Morton (Imperial College London, UK) Aristotle’s convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped…
World Scientific Series on Machine Consciousness – Vol. 2 CONSCIOUSNESS AND ROBOT SENTIENCE by Pentti O.A. Haikonen Available now for pre-order at World Scientific and Amazon! Robots are becoming more human, but could they also become sentient and have human-like…
Review Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines By Pentty Haikonen Wiley. September 2007. ISBN: 978-0-470-06204-3 The first thing that I would like to say about this book is that this is one of the few cases in which…
(El alma está en el cerebro – Spanish Edition) Written by Eduardo Punset Spanish Publisher: Aguilar, 2006, Madrid. 344 pages. ISBN: 84-03-09737-9 Rather than a book on Consciousness, this is a popular science book about neuroscience. The phenomenon of consciousness…
Calculating God By Robert J. Sawyer Tor Science Fiction. 2001 English. 352 pages. ISBN: 0812580354 First of all, let me explain why I am posting a science fiction novel review to Conscious-Robots.com. For those of you who are familiar with…
BRAINMAKERS: How scientists are moving beyond computers to create a rival to the human brain. By David H. Freeman. Touchstone. 1995. 224 pages. English. ISBN: 067151055X This is a somewhat old book that I found some time ago in a…
Artificial Consciousness ed. Antonio Chella & Riccardo Manzotti 280 pages January 2007 ISBN: 9781845400705 The book is interdisciplinary and focuses on the topic of artificial consciousness: from neuroscience to artificial intelligence, from bioengineering to robotics. It provides an overview on…