fred rosenberger wrote:Just like many discussions...what exactly meets your criteria of "self-aware"? and to push back even further...what exactly makes something "alive"?
That is really hard to answer because it is really hard to define what consciousness and self-awareness are exactly, and we don't have a
test that can definitely prove that someone, or an animal, or a machine is conscious and self-aware.
I think they are emergent properties of complex neural networks, such as our brains. So I think that in principle it is possible that a machine will become self-aware, if it has a neural network that is complex enough. There's just no way for us to know for sure, however, if it really is self-aware.