?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Consciousness+in+Human+and+Robot+Minds&rft.creator=Dennett%2C+Daniel+C.&rft.subject=Applied+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Robotics&rft.description=The+best+reason+for+believing+that+robots+might+some+day++become+conscious+is+that+we+human+beings+are+conscious%2C+and+we+are+a+sort+of+robot+ourselves.+That+is%2C+we+are+extraordinarily++complex+self-controlling%2C+self-sustaining+physical+mechanisms%2C+designed+over+the+eons+by+natural+selection%2C+and+operating++according+to+the+same+well-understood+principles+that+govern++all+the+other+physical+processes+in+living+things%3A+digestive+and+metabolic+processes%2C+self-repair+and+reproductive+processes%2C+for+instance.+It+may+be+wildly+over-ambitious+to+suppose+that+human+artificers+can+repeat+Nature's+triumph%2C+with+variations++in+material%2C+form%2C+and+design+process%2C+but+this+is+not+a+deep+objection.+It+is+not+as+if+a+conscious+machine+contradicted+any+fundamental+laws+of+nature%2C+the+way+a+perpetual+motion++machine+does.+Still%2C+many+skeptics+believe--or+in+any+event+want+to+believe--that+it+will+never+be+done.+I+wouldn't+wager+against+them%2C+but+my+reasons+for+skepticism+are+mundane%2C++economic+reasons%2C+not+theoretical+reasons.&rft.date=1994&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F429%2F1%2Fconcrobt.htm&rft.identifier=++Dennett%2C+Daniel+C.++(1994)+Consciousness+in+Human+and+Robot+Minds.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F429%2F