?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Todd+Moody's+Zombies&rft.creator=McCarthy%2C+John&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=From+the+AI+point+of+view%2C+consciousness+must+be+regarded+as+a+collection+of+interacting+processes+rather+than+the+unitary+object+of+much+philosophical+speculation.+We+ask+what+kinds+of+propositions+and+other+entities+need+to+be+designed+for+consciousness+to+be+useful+to+an+animal+or+a+machine.+We+thereby+assert+that+human+consciousness+is+useful+to+human+functioning+and+not+just+and+epiphenomenon.+Zombies+in+the+sense+of+Todd+Moody's+article+are+merely+the+victims+of+Moody's+prejudices.+To+behave+like+humans%2C+zombies+will+need+what+Moody+might+call+pseudo-consciousness%2C+but+useful+pseudo-consciousness+will+share+all+the+observable+qualities+of+human+consciousness+including+what+the+zombie+will+be+able+to+report.+Robots+will+require+a+pseudo-consciousness+with+many+of+the+intellectual+qualities+of+human+consciousness+but+will+function+successfully+with+few+if+any+human+emotional+conscious+qualities+if+that+is+how+we+choose+to+build+them.&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F426%2F2%2Fzombie.ps&rft.identifier=++McCarthy%2C+John++(1995)+Todd+Moody's+Zombies.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F426%2F