title: The roots of self-awareness
creator: Anderson, Dr. Michael L.
creator: Perlis, Prof. Donald R.
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Artificial Intelligence
description: In this paper we provide an account of the structural underpinnings of self-awareness. We offer both an abstract, logical account-by way of suggestions for how to build a genuinely self-referring artificial agent-and a biological account, via a discussion of the role of somatoception in supporting and structuring self-awareness more generally. Central to the account is a discussion of the necessary motivational properties of self-representing mental tokens, in light of which we offer a novel definition of self-representation. We also discuss the role of such tokens in organizing self-specifying information, which leads to a naturalized restatement of the guarantee that introspective awareness is immune to error due to mis-identification of the subject.
date: 2005
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/3948/1/SSC.pdf
identifier:   Anderson, Dr. Michael L. and Perlis, Prof. Donald R.  (2005) The roots of self-awareness.  [Journal (Paginated)]    (In Press)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/3948/