Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cwjcc!ukma!gatech!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Defining Machine Intelligence. Keywords: Sentience, Awareness, Self-Awareness Message-ID: <42361@linus.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 15:11:05 GMT References: <484@soleil.UUCP> <4216@homxc.UUCP> <401@uwslh.UUCP> <1111@dukeac.UUCP> <404@uwslh.UUCP> <713@quintus.UUCP> <405@uwslh.UUCP> <622@htsa.uucp> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) Organization: IdeaSync, Inc., Chronos, VT Lines: 20 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