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Are we building AI equivalents of the philosophical zombie?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

If P-Zombies are an impossibility, then so too true AI that dismisses the need for consciousness, or begs the question by assuming that consciousness will emerge from intelligence.

It may be that intelligence, true human intelligence, emerges from consciousness.




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