A Functionalist View of Consciousness in Bicentennial Man

Based on Asimov’s Bicentennial Man, the 1999 film Bicentennial Man stars Robin Williams as an increasingly lifelike robot. One fundamental question is: at any stage, does Andrew possess “consciousness”? Withholding the belief that humans over all other things have been supernaturally “chosen” or imbued with consciousness, a naturalistic assessment of qualitative experience permits Andrew to […]

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