Portraits of Machine Consciousness

'''Letson, Russell. "Portraits of Machine Consciousness."' TMG'' 101-08.

A taxonomy of conscious machines from HAL in S. Kubrick's film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY to its "complementary opposite" of "the sentimentalized machine," with L. del Rey's "Helen O'Loy" as the locus classicus (102-3), to machines by S. Lem, P. Alterman, J. P. Hogan, I. Asimov, and R. A. Heinlein.