pseudoconscious.
Seemingly or nearly conscious but not truly so; said of processes within the human mind, of people, of software, or of machines running software.
Meaning & usage
Seemingly or nearly conscious but not truly so; said of processes within the human mind, of people, of software, or of machines running software.
investigating unconscious or pseudoconscious processes in psychology
The great problem with differentiating pseudoconscious from conscious machines is that operational definitions of criteria for "true" consciousness are elusively difficult to achieve, as Erik Hoel, one of various experts in that field, has explored expositorily for nonexperts.
Where this word comes from
From pseudo- + conscious.
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