Recent rapid advances in high‎-speed computer technology have provided a new reality‎,‎ an perhaps urgency‎,‎ to the arguments concerning some of the most basic and long‎-standing of philosophical issues‎.‎ If computers can‎,‎ before too long‎,‎ achieve a genuine artificial intelligence‎,‎ then may they not also have artificial minds‎?‎ In this series of lectures‎,‎ a distinguished group of international contributors from a variety of disciplines debate the current position‎.‎ Donald Broadbent‎'‎s introduction describes the parallels in human and machine behaviour‎,‎ asserting the value of a scientific approach‎.‎ Roger Penrose goes on to set the scene by evaluating current claims and issues‎,‎ supporting a sceptical view‎.‎ Contributions from Allen Newell‎,‎ Dana Ballard and Mike Brady present some recent achievements of engineering and computer science‎,‎ showing just how far machines have come‎.‎ In his chapter Edmund Rolls offers a perspective from neuroscience and examines how certain cognitive processes ‎(‎such as memory‎)‎ can be understood in ter‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎