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Will the self-replicating robots be aware as well as intelligent?
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Self-awareness can mean many things. Knowledge of ones mortality, emotional state, place in a family or culture, ones past, personal goals and future could all be considered elements of self-awareness. If a robot possesses any of these is it self-aware or must is possess all aspects of human self-awareness? Consider that the robot could be self aware in ways that humans are not.
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How do you design awareness?
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My friend Yukon is already has a degree of self-awareness. When its transmission fluid gets to hot is shuts down the engine.
I suggest that self awareness is simple the inclusion of dynamic data regarding the robots physical and logical parameters.
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How do you design consciousness?
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I am uncertain what you mean by consciousness?
In people there is a conscious mind and an unconscious mind. The conscious mind occurs when new situations are encountered and requires the focus of the mind. The conscious mind employs reasoning and logic. The unconscious minds functioning is the application of conclusions that have already been arrived at in a generalized context. Unconscious functioning is often manifested as inclinations, intuition, and emotional responses.
I suspect that the human mental dynamic you refer to as consciousness is a product of these and other factors of human mental function. For this to be manifested in a robot would therefore depend on the degree to which these humanlike mechanisms exist in the robot.
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Are the Honda Robots that can balance on two legs aware of balancing?
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If the feat of balancing is accomplished through their logical functioning and it includes data on balance parameters then yes they are aware of balancing.
Most robots a designed for a specific task. People are not. If you are wondering is a robot could duplicate human thinking and funcitoning I suggest it is not likely. Here are some aspects of human functionality.
Humans can deal with complex and relatively unfamiliar environments. It takes a person somewhere between 15 to 25 years to learn to do this and many never do. I suggest a robot would have to acquire a similar degree of acquired experience to do this. If it takes this degree of resources to teach a robot what advantage does it have over a person?
