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Why a computer will never be truly conscious

  • Written by Subhash Kak, Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University
What makes a brain tick is very different from how computers operate.Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock.com

Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working towardbuilding a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multisensory information. The assumption goes, then, that once brain...

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