One day, technology may be advanced enough to be able to mimic consciousness, but artificial intelligence will never be able to have true consciousness. They could be programmed to be able to pretend very well to have consciousness but they would have no real consciousness. Bringsjord calls him a “philosophical zombie.” Essentially, this would be a person who looks exactly like us and, to some extent, behaves like us, but given the right circumstances you would notice that this being acts emotionlessly. It would not have a set of memories, beliefs and desires. Locke establishes that a person is classified according to “a collection of memories, beliefs and desires”. How could a robot created by a human have such a thing? So, essentially, since AI would not have a set of these characteristics, it could be argued that it lacks consciousness. He would simply be a being going through the daily motions of life without questioning his existence or purpose in life. Bringsjord says, “what kind of artifacts will these creatures be? I offer an unflattering one-word answer: Pollock, Dennett, and like-minded researchers are busy building… zombies.”