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Is it possible to put consciousness into a home computer? The only way one may have any chance to accomplish this is by reducing the dimensionality of the class of problems that the brain to be designed must solve. This can indeed be done within the context of a certain abstract theory.
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Rössler, O.E. (1985). Design for a One-Dimensional Brain. In: Mints, S.L., Perlmutter, A. (eds) Information Processing in Biological Systems. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 21. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2515-4_7
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