Self-Awareness
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distinction between [[Self|self]] and non-self. The second | distinction between [[Self|self]] and non-self. The second | ||
step is a coarse understanding of language and a crude | step is a coarse understanding of language and a crude | ||
| - | perception of individuals in general. | + | perception of individuals in general. A robot |
| + | usually cannot recognize or perceive itself, | ||
| + | if it is not able to understand language. | ||
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| + | In animals, information about the system | ||
| + | itself is so important that it is usually | ||
| + | processed and controlled by an own system, | ||
| + | the limbic system and the autonomic nervous | ||
| + | system, or in other words, largely by emotions. | ||
| + | "Information about the system itself" is | ||
| + | processed by the limbic system, and "information | ||
| + | about other things" by the cerebral cortex. | ||
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| + | If robots are able to understand things | ||
| + | through language, then the point where | ||
| + | they start to distinguish "information about | ||
| + | the system itself" and "information about | ||
| + | other things" is the point where self-awareness | ||
| + | begins. To know the self means to know where | ||
| + | the self ends, and where the rest of the world | ||
| + | begins. | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
