Zen and the Art of Explaining the Mind [Review of Shanahan M. (2010) Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds. Oxford University Press.]

Harnad, Stevan (2011) Zen and the Art of Explaining the Mind [Review of Shanahan M. (2010) Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds. Oxford University Press.]. International Journal of Machine Consciousness (IJMC) (Submitted).

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The “global workspace” model would explain our performance capacity if it could actually be shown to generate our performance capacity. (So far it is still just a promissory note.) That would solve the “easy” problem. But that still would not explain how and why it generates consciousness (if it does). That’s a rather harder problem.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	[Book review of Shanahan M. (2010) Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds. Oxford University Press.]
Keywords:	consciousness, robotics, global work space, neural nets, feeling, Turing test, explanation, causality, mind/body problem
Divisions:	Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science
Item ID:	271843
Date Deposited:	24 Dec 2010 13:24
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2012 13:56
Contributors:	Harnad, Stevan (Author)
Date:	2011
Additional Information:	[Book review of Shanahan M. (2010) Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds. Oxford University Press.]
Status:	Submitted
Contact Email Address:	harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Further Information:	Google Scholar
URI:	http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/271843

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