Artificial intelligence being only a first step, engineers are now trying to develop artificial consciousness as experienced by humans, other mammals, and probably some other animals as well. Contributors identified only by name report on the struggle from such perspectives as depicting architecture for synthetic phenomenology, a rational and vision for machine consciousness in complex controllers, and the ensemble and the single mind. Perhaps artificial morality will be next. Distributed in the US by the Philosophy Documentation Center. Annotation 2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
