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The term synthetic consciousness is preferred here to simulated consciousness because anything simulated is by definition not real. Synthetic consciousness is a term which includes the possibility of a synthesised real consciousness.

1 Also see

• Artificial intelligence
• Artificial life
• Biomorphic robotics
• Consciousness
• Digital organism
• Emotional intelligence
• Philosophy of mind
• Unconscious mind

2 Notable researchers

• Cynthia Breazeal, developer of Kismet (robot)
• Rodney Brooks
• David Chalmers [1]
• Daniel Dennett
• Gerald Edelman
• Steve Grand, creator of CreaturesThis is an entry about an artificial life computer program series. For information on creatures as a synonym for animals, see creature. Creatures is an artificial life computer program series, created in the early 1990s by English computer scientist Steve and author of Growing up with Lucy
• Douglas HofstadterDouglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American academic. He is probably best known for his book Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid published in 1979, which won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. This book, also, author of Gödel, Escher, BachGodel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter, first published in 1979 by Basic Books. A new preface by Hofstadter accompanied an otherwise unchanged 20th anniversary edition (BooksEnthsiast.com) released
• Raymond KurzweilRaymond Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic musical keyboards. He is author of The Age of Intelligent Machines The Age, author, inventor, computer scientist, et al
• Colin McGinnColin McGinn (born 1950) is a British philosopher at Rutgers University. He is primarily known for promoting the view known as New Mysterianism, which is a view of the Philosophy of mind that states that the human mind is fundamentally incapable of compre
• Thomas NagelThomas Nagel is a professor of philosophy at New York University. He is known within philosophy of mind as an advocate of the idea that consciousness and subjective experience cannot be reduced to brain activity. One of his most famous articles is What is
• Roger PenroseSir Roger Penrose OM (born August 8 1931) is an English mathematical physicist. He is highly regarded for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and controversial philosopher
• John Searlephilosopher at UC Berkeley. John Rogers Searle (born December 1932) is Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and is noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and consciousness, on the char