NOTES ON SELF-AWARENESS

John McCarthy

Computer Science Department

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Stanford University

Abstract:

These notes discuss self-awareness in humans and machines. The goal is to determine useful forms of machine self-awareness and also those that are on the road to human-level AI.

This is a draft which is to be improved, and suggestions are solicited. There are a few formulas in this version. The final version will have more.