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Zombies and Dolls
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This chapter uses thought experiments and practical examples to introduce, in a very accessible way, the hard problem of consciousness. Soon, machines may behave like us to pass the Turing test and scientists may succeed in copying and simulating the inner workings of the brain. Will all this take us any closer to solving the mysteries of consciousness? The reader is taken to meet different kind of zombies, the philosophical, the digital, and the inner ones, to understand why many, scientists and philosophers alike, doubt that the mind–body problem will ever be solved.
Title: Zombies and Dolls
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This chapter uses thought experiments and practical examples to introduce, in a very accessible way, the hard problem of consciousness.
Soon, machines may behave like us to pass the Turing test and scientists may succeed in copying and simulating the inner workings of the brain.
Will all this take us any closer to solving the mysteries of consciousness? The reader is taken to meet different kind of zombies, the philosophical, the digital, and the inner ones, to understand why many, scientists and philosophers alike, doubt that the mind–body problem will ever be solved.
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