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From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Summary: Model-Reasoning enables self modeling.
Keywords: self awareness
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Date: 10 Dec 88 15:08:44 GMT
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Richard A. O'Keefe says:

 > "An awareness of self" might be important to an intelligent organism,
 > but it might be a *consequence* of intelligence rather than a
 > *precondition* for it.

The ability to repose a self model is a consequence of the ability
to repose models.  Model-based reasoning is one facet of intelligence,
and a useful one for a sentient being who wishes to survive in a
dangerous world.  One of the interesting issues in defining a
self model is the location of the boundary between the self and
non-self portions of the model.  There is some evidence that humans
don't agree on the location of such boundaries.

--Barry Kort