The Embedded, Self-Aware Agent

The theme of this paper is the question of whether artificially engineered organisms, such as robots or purely virtual creatures, which we refer to under the umbrella term animats, could develop some rudimentary form of self-awareness; and, if so, what is the minimal set of conditions that such an animat would have to fulfil before we could ascribe such awareness to it.

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