Re: Can a Machine become self-aware?

anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> wrote or quoted:

On 2025-06-14, The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

Can a Machine become self-aware?

We are part of the universe, and we are self-aware.

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 Self-wareness is an experience that depends on being the
 entity that experiences it, so it cannot be observed from
 the outside and therefore also not be expressed in words.
>
 If you are self-aware, you probably know that you are self-
 aware, but you cannot know for sure whether something else
 is self-aware.

Keep it simple.
In all the 'neurons' or nerve cells, some monitor what other cells do as system to keep life moving.
Its purpose is likely communication.

When a new born baby is hungry, or feels pain it will scream.
The monitor cells issue a trigger to the voice.
Almost the same as the reaction to pain reflex when you burn your finger etc.
Those monitoring calls are the 'I' as in 'I am'.
We TEACH the kinds who they are, YOU are 'Peter'
and the monitoring system then repeats ,
this 'knowledge' ever grows (memory).
IIRC it is build mostly in the frontal cortex, part of our 'world view'.
You can make it 'learn' with a few lines of code in the sunscreen example I gave.
Voice (word) recognition libraries plenty for for example Linux.
After telling it his name is 'Peter' ask it who it is.
Who are you?
I am peter .

Add a bit more stuff and it will fool many here :-)

But basically it is just a monitoring circuit for the cells.
Add a camera, object recognition..
Ask Peter 'Who am I?'
The answer will be  you name.

Who are you?
 I am Peter.
Peter How's you battery level?
 20% and falling.
  I need  recharge

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