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Subjectivity and awareness

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The concept of awareness was discussed from a scientific viewpoint, based on the related experimental results of visual hand tracking and temporal order judgement of successive stimuli, in order to contribute to obtaining a possible design principle of the aware machines. It was proposed that a clock which drives the internal simulator by a faster time than the development of the external world is necessary for an aware machine to make an useful decision for future like higher biological organisms.

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Sawada, Y. Subjectivity and awareness. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 6, 137–144 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-013-0193-1

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