Animals, qualia, and robots

Henry W. Johnstone

pp. 127-136

in: Herbert Otto, James Tuedio (eds), Perspectives on mind, Berlin, Springer, 1988

Abstract

Moor's project is to suggest tests to determine whether machines experience qualia on the assumption that the analysis of the proposition that they do experience them is already settled—at least supposing that they are made of the right stuff. I assume this too. My project is also, in a sense, to suggest a test; but it is a test not so easily formulated as any of Moor's