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Consciousness

My opinion is that self-consciousness, i.e. the ability to observe some of ones own mental processes, is essential for full intelligence. Whether it is essential for babies and young children is another matter. [McC96] treats the question for robots from the designer stance, i.e. asks what self-consciouness it is useful to build into robots.



John McCarthy
2008-09-18