Here is an interesting session organized by David Anderson:
FRIDAY, February 17, 3-6pm (at the Palmer House, Chicago)
SESSION ON “Machine Consciousness” (Sponsored by the APA Committee on Computers and Philosophy)
Chair: David Leech Anderson (Illinois State University)
3:00 Ned Block (New York University), “Can thinking about machines help us understand consciousness?”
3:35 Peter Boltuc (University of Illinois at Springfield), “Non-reductive machine consciousness”
4:10 Terry Horgan (University of Arizona) “The Real Moral of the Chinese
Room: Understanding Requires Understanding-Phenomenology”
4:45 Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse University), “Humans and other conscious machines – one way or many?”