Do you think machine consciousness is possible?
dbul: Where did you go to school? It sounds very much like you have a symbolic background. There are many approaches and people are attacking them from different angles. Here are just a couple of resources worth looking at off the top of my head:Christof Koch at CalTech (hi, virgil)
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/Larry Yaeger & John Beggs
http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v30n2/mindmade.shtmlOf course, Douglas Hofstadter
http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/Koch, Churchland, etc. speak on consciousness:
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/342