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Intuition

The definition may not be complete, but it is certainly not circular! It's mearly a decomposition. To define the "self," read up Descartes, Heideger or even Goedel (think objects, entities, creatures). Awareness is in the sensing of this object, and have an internal representation of it (I seem to remember St Exupery writing about this).

Your example is indeed primitive self awareness, but human tailored. How can AI can develop self awareness itself?

If "we all have ideas about self awareness" then stop trying to be so pedantic and share them with us. This poll is a good excuse to do so.

A self-aware OS may repair itself, organise data on disk and in memory to optimally assist the user, decide when is convenient/possible to run background tasks... (you'll have a field day picking holes in that example ;)

Alex

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Monday 03 February, 15:42
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