RBH
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Joined: Sep. 2002
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Ipetrich wrote| Quote | | And self-recognition may be a byproduct of a more general mental-modeling capability, with the model being of oneself. |
I have a vague memory of a view of consciousness/self in which the model is oneself. That is, the "self" that is our awareness consists in the mental model built through the interactions of the perceptions of inputs and the perceptions of one's own behavior in the light of those inputs during some developmental period. So self-recognition would be the model 'recognizing' its own existence! Recursion, anyone?
RBH
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"There are only two ways we know of to make extremely complicated things, one is by engineering, and the other is evolution. And of the two, evolution will make the more complex." - Danny Hillis.
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