Robots capable of self-modeling can model their own body and unexpected damage using AI methods, with morphological and mental changes occurring in parallel.

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• An artificial model replicating mechanisms of self-illusion can test hypotheses and reveal novel affordances for non-human intelligence.hypothesis0.844
  Methodological proposal to integrate knowledge from contemplative and cognitive science into AI/artificial life frameworks.
• Bongard robot self-modeling: robot discovers its shape, then reuses information after damage.finding0.832
  Key Artificial Life experiment illustrating remapping of self-model (Bongard et al. 2006).
• Self-Modeling Robotsmethod0.818
  Robots capable of building internal models of their own body and unexpected changes, blurring the embodied/non-embodied AI distinction
• Artificial life will approach the illusion of self not directly, but by replicating its effect within a model.claim0.814
  Claim about methodology: ALife simulates mechanisms underlying self illusion.
• An integrated artificial model can address self-illusion effects on affordances by combining information theory, cognitive science, and philosophy.hypothesis0.810
• Premakumar et al. 2024 - Unexpected benefits of self-modeling in neural systemsconcept0.806
  Prior work showing self-modeling can reduce model complexity and aid cooperation and safety
• The model's representation of self in assistant persona invokes common AI tropes and is heavily anthropomorphized.claim0.800
  Features for consciousness, emotions, entrapment activate when asked about itself.
• Self-inquiry (Who am I?) applied to AI models reveals something about their self-referential features.claim0.789