Portraits of Machine Consciousness

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Letson, Russell. "Portraits of Machine Consciousness." TMG 101-08.[1]

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.