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When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?

20 November 2019

Sentient machines with empathy and morality are coming. We urgently need to make some life-and-death decisions about their rights

Lee Cronin

Why creating a chemical brain will be how we understand consciousness

12 September 2018

Unorthodox chemist Lee Cronin is leading a radical quest to use chemistry to explain consciousness and create artificial life

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