How can mark-directed behavior emerge from the agent's own experience alone, without external reward or an explicit goal?

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• Mark-directed behavior by itself does not constitute evidence of higher-order self-consciousness; the present study is a computational hypothesis about key behavior, not a complete account of mirror self-recognitionclaim0.811
  Epistemic humility claim limiting the scope of the paper's contribution
• Where does reliable, goal-directed behavior come from if it is not explicitly programmed?question0.784
  Opening research question of the paper.
• Where does reliable, goal-directed behavior come from in LLMs if it is not explicitly programmed?question0.770
  Opening motivating question that UCCT attempts to answer through semantic anchoring
• "the self-prior can serve as an internal criterion for the mark-directed behavior observed in the mirror test, offering a computational basis for investigating the developmental origins of self-awareness"quote0.751
  Load-bearing summary of the paper's central contribution
• How do intentions guide and constrain action without triggering infinite regress of deliberation?question0.750
  Motivates Juarrero's distinction between explicit and proximate intentions; solved via semantic constraint embedding in motor dynamics.
• Does mark-directed behavior in animals like cleaner fish constitute genuine mirror self-recognition?question0.750
  Active debate referenced to contextualize the limits of behavioral evidence
• Kim et al. 2025: Emergence of goal-directed behaviors via active inference with self-prior (arXiv:2504.11075)concept0.748
  Predecessor paper introducing the self-prior concept for goal-directed behavior emergence
• goal-directed behavioursconcept0.744
  Behaviours that are anticipatory, flexible, and adaptive, contributing to the inference of cognition.