I don't think self-awareness is needed at all for intelligence. It seems like most animals have little to no self awareness, yet have intelligence and sentience that is constituted by mastery of sensorimotor skills needed to access and meaningfully grasp their environments. On Dec 16, 2013 3:31 PM, "Jim Bromer" <jimbro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Robert Levy <r.p.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > This requires a definition of self. If it refers to an autopoietic > unity, as in the generalization of what a "person", or "organism" is, i.e. > self-organizing systems of causal sensorimotor relations to environments, > then I suspect yes. > > > > After all, what is a percept, or a concept, or a purposeful behavior, if > not something solely comprehensible as the experience of a situated agent > directing its behavior in relation to an environment. > > > > > That is interesting. If the program had awareness of how its own > actions affected the data environment then it would have a sense of > self. That does not mean that a sense of self is necessary for an AI > program to employ creativity, but from this point of view so what? A > sense of self is necessary for an AGI program. > > Jim Bromer > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/18769370-bddcdfdc > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
