AGIs will indeed be capable of self-awareness – but that is because they will be General: they will be capable of awareness of every kind of deep and subtle thing, including their own selves.
Re "The Malady of Me" (Week in Review, Dec. 5), about those milder, "more normal" narcissists among us: Are such people capable of awareness of their own often pompous behavior?
He knew too that to be conscious of the primordial fact is enlightenment and that, as a human being, he was capable of such awareness and so might become the Buddha that, in essence, he had always been.
Or, one might actually be capable of attaining awareness that some item is one's knowledge basis.
One might be capable of attaining awareness of what is in fact one's knowledge basis, but without also being capable of being aware that this item is one's knowledge basis.
They do not even fare well compared to normal human children, who "are clearly capable of introspective awareness …, robustly competent in language, and more likely to show signs of autonomy" (ibid., 322).
At most, she thinks, Shoemaker has shown that rational creatures will generally be capable of self-awareness.
Marino, whose own work indicated that dolphins were capable of self-awareness and other types of advanced cognition, felt that keeping these social, intelligent animals in marine parks did not justify what could be learned from them.
If you are capable of self-awareness, you will always insert two additional steps into this pattern: After your initial impulse, you evaluate the specifics of the situation.
In fact, years ago I carried out experiments with noted Harvard Psychologist B.F. Skinner (Science, 1981) that showed even animals are capable of "self-awareness".
Years ago I published an experiment (Science, 212, 695, 1981) with Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner (the "father" of modern behaviorism) showing that like us, animals are capable of 'self-awareness.' We taught pigeons to use a mirror to locate a spot on their body which they couldn't see directly.
