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From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Defining Machine Intelligence.
Keywords: Sentience, Awareness, Self-Awareness
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Date: 1 Dec 88 15:11:05 GMT
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In article <622@htsa.uucp> fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten) writes:

 > In article <405@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) writes:

 > > (3) "Let's build a machine that can reason about its surroundings,
 > >      and is aware of itself and its relation to the surrounding
 > >      environment"

 > How would you define 'being aware of (itself, its surroundings, etc)' ?

An artificial sentient being would have sensor systems (e.g. vision,
audition, olfaction) through which it would acquire data about its
environment.  It would integrate this sensory data into an internal
map or model.  One of the objects in the system's environment is
the sentient being, itself, so it would need to represent itself as 
one part of the world, too.  With this map, it can navigate through the
environment and interact with other objects (including other sentient
beings).

--Barry Kort