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Letter: Editor's pick: We are still aware of some doubts on consciousness (3)

Published 16 October 2019

From Ben Haller, Ithaca, New York, US

I welcome Graziano’s statement at the beginning of his article that “instead of trying to grapple with the hard problem” of consciousness, he takes “a more down-to-earth approach”. But he then discusses an attention schema and sensory and verbal capabilities. All he is really entitled to claim is that a machine having these would be attentive, not that it would be conscious.

Issue no. 3252 published 19 October 2019

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