| Michael Anderson and Don Perlis. The roots of self-awareness. Forthcoming. |
....a robot that can decide it is the robot who is, say, leaking oil, upon hearing that robot 17 is leaking oil. What is it for robot 17 to know that it, itself, is that robot How does this affect its behavior Presumably it is quite important to have such a capability, e.g. for survival. See [12, 1] for more elaborate discussions of this idea. In conclusion, the topic of self reference appears to span a vast intellectual territory, from formal logic to natural language, to philosophy of mind, to artificial intelligence and robotics. And very many open questions remain. ....
Michael Anderson and Don Perlis. The roots of self-awareness. Forthcoming.
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