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Why are you convinced that people around you are self-aware ? Because you constantly Turing-test them for this feature, and they appear to behave as if they were self-aware.
An accurate simulator will achieve that level of perfomance.
The same holds for 'consciousness'.
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Well i think people are self aware as anything that possesses self monitoring and a short term memory, so in this case it's not the Turing test i'am using,it's an assumption, but that's a good insight you have there.
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so What makes you think i'am not just a program now? - you might be replying to a program right now. 
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Hi
You are right.
Finally: the only "proof" for the foreign (Self)awareness is communication.
Pure logical symbolic representation can not result in selfawareness. See Kurt Gödel 
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So am I. Glad to see you D2.
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Hi C-3PO 
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Buy some books written by Stanislaw Lem, and have a lot fun while thinking over his stories!
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I do just that, for fun
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I think it is possible for the machine to "think" (if we consider "think" a process of reasoning). We already have that...
But i don't see human kind creating a machine that can feel emotions in the foreseeable future. I think it would be extremely cruel of us to create such a "Frankenstein".
Paulo Gomes
Over and Out 
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Yeah it can be cruel, but i'am sure our future generations can suppress those emotions in the machine and hence can be very helpful, like we are seeing with Apple's Siri.
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why no? any support for that answer?
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Sorry, I was suggesting you check out the book in the attached link to support my suggestion
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So do neurons in the brain use some form of quantum computations or they just fire action potentials to signal the presence of a particular feature in sensory stimuli? - that process of firing action potential makes us aware of ourselves and the environment. I don't see any quantum processes coming into play here.
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yeah God knows for sure. I believe in God too
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Hi, BupeChombaDerrick. Great question and I have to add that I admire your insightful thinking. Since the human brain is self-aware and that particular computer program simulates it *very accurately*, then, of course, that computer program will be self-aware, too. So, the answer is yes. The computer program will be self-aware, have emotions, etc.
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Thanks Dimitrios Kalemis,
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too vast subject I'm afraid, anyway if you are interested in such mind-boggling stuff read the works of Douglas Hofstader
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yeah a vast subject indeed, will check that out.
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I think we are closer than we have ever been.
IBM chip mimics human brain[^]
According to the article above, IBM has already been able to mimic the brain. It's only one step in the process of becoming self-aware but one step leads to another. It seems silly to me to think that it will not happen someday.
I'm not saying it will have a soul or be human but it will definately be self-aware. My dogs are not human but they are definately self-aware.
It's just a matter of time now that the first step has been taken.
Enjoy!
modified 27-Apr-12 11:41am.
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Thanks for the link. 
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Yes. But such a thing is pure science fiction, and will remain so for a long time.
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It maybe near depending on what break through science will make.
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