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This paper presents a clear-cut definition of consciousness of humans, consciousness of self in particular. The definition “Consistency of cognition and behavior generates consciousness” explains almost all conscious behaviors of humans. A “consciousness system” was conceived based on this definition and actually constructed with recurrent neural networks. We succeeded in implementing imitation behavior, which we believe is closely related to consciousness, by applying the consciousness system to a robot.
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Suzuki, T., Inaba, K., Takeno, J. (2005). Conscious Robot That Distinguishes Between Self and Others and Implements Imitation Behavior. In: Ali, M., Esposito, F. (eds) Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3533. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11504894_17
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