This essay asks the following question:  Are insects and plants organic machines?   It does so in the contexts of Robert Kirk’s semi-mecha...

  This essay is a response to, and a commentary upon,  Dieter Birnbacher ’s paper  ‘Artificial Consciousness’ , which can also be found in t...

  The following quotes are only a very-small selection of the hundreds of examples of the “Consciousness is…” statement on social media. Rou...