Mind reading

The clip above shows pre-recorded scenes and reconstuctions of those scenes based on brain activity. You can see that the clearest images are to do with faces - the brain devotes enormous resources to this and to the interpretation of text. It would be interesting to see if a tiger or other predator would cause different images than that of an elephant

Could a robot be conscious?

There is a good summary of some of the key questions in Philosophy of mind in this BBC article, plus link a to a program called 'The Philosopher's Arms' in which:

a man discovers that his adopted daughter is a robot. Should he treat her any differently from before? She's indistinguishable from a human so should she have the same status as a human?