An introduction for an essay about 'Can future robots be conscious?'. I said that robots cannot be conscious.
Dennett, in his article "Consciouness in Human and Robot Minds," argues that future robots could be conscious, because human minds are also machines, in the sense that they are nothing more than parts working together to achieve consciousness. Selmer Bringsjord, in his article "The Zombie Attack on Computationalism" (focus on pp. 1-12 only), argues that the beings that Dennett is considering would be nothing more than philosophical zombies, in the sense that they are beings that seem to function like human beings, but have no inner lives. Examine Dennett's argument, then Bringsford's, before defending your own position.