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Tony Prescott

Sheffield
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Professor of Cognitive Robotics. Biomimetics, Neuroscience, AI, Living Machines, Edutech, Assisted Living
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The synthetic self - Tony J Prescott

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By Tony Prescott
| QOSHE
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Why the best way to understand the self is to build a robot one

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By Tony Prescott
| Aeon Verified
Whatever I may be thinking of, I am always at the same time more or less aware of myself, of my personal existence. At the same time it is I who am aware; so that the total self of me, being as it were duplex, partly known and partly knower, partly object and partly subject, must have two aspects discriminated in it, of which for shortness we may call one the Me and the other the I. – from Psychology: Briefer Course (1894) by William James What is the self?
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Understanding the sense of self through robotics

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By Tony Prescott, Ninad Jadhav, Ken Goldberg, Kai Vogeley
| Science Magazine Verified
Abstract Robotics can play a useful role in the scientific understanding of the sense of self, both through the construction of embodied models of the self and through the use of robots as experimental probes to explore the human self. In both cases, the embodiment of the robot allows us to devise and test hypotheses about the nature of the self, with regard to its development, its manifestation in behavior, and the diversity of selves in humans, animals, and, potentially, machines.
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