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02243aam a2200361 i 4500 001 308F4A8219C611E7BD0085CCDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170405010226 008 160817t20172017enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016038067 020 $a 1474286585 020 $a 9781474286589 020 $a 1474286593 020 $a 9781474286596 035 $a (OCoLC)949819829 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a B808.9 K573 2017 100 1 $a Kirk, Robert, $d 1933- $e author. 245 10 $a Robots, zombies and us : $b understanding consciousness / $c Robert Kirk. 264 1 $a London, UK ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, $c 2017. 300 $a ix, 192 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a 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 with its opposite, physicalism. Probing the idea of zombies, he concludes they are logically impossible. Having presented the central problems, he sketches his solution: a version of functionalism, according to which consciousness consists in the performance of functions. While there is wide agreement among philosophers about what the main problems of consciousness are, there is little agreement on how to go about solving them. With this powerful case for his version of functionalism, Kirk offers an engaging introduction to both the problems and a possible solution. 650 0 $a Consciousness. 650 0 $a Functionalism (Psychology) 650 0 $a Zombies $x Miscellanea. 650 0 $a Robots $x Miscellanea. 650 0 $a Other minds (Theory of knowledge) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802023453.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=308F4A8219C611E7BD0085CCDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search