Journal article
Self-Model or Self-Simulation? A Machine Self-Awareness Index Averages Sub-Scores With No Common Referent and No Fixed Sign, Why Persistent Identity, Goal Stability and Memory Continuity Are Not Evidence of Self-Access, and the Validity Tests Any Composite Would Have to Pass
Some proposals to quantify machine self-awareness combine several sub-scores - persistent identity, goal stability, cross-session memory continuity, contradiction detection, uncertainty awareness, self-prediction and introspective access - into one index. This paper asks whether such an index…