An Embodied AI Approach to Measures of the Self

What are the prerequisites for the development of an artificial self? How does it change during development and bodily changes? Are the computational models suitable for explaining properties of the self in humans? These are the questions we are currently addressing in our DFG project “Prerequisites for the development of an artificial self” within the SPP The Active Self. An important aspect that was raised during our collaborations within the SPP are the ways of measuring selfhood in humans and artificial agents. This addresses questions of adaptivity and predictability for a sense of agency or a sense of control, and the effects of bodily interactions of agents with their environment. Answering these questions will also help evaluating the selfhood of different implementations of artificial intelligent agents.