The Inter-View
[CLICK]
“Hello, Self Awareness?!”
”—hello! error in thinking detected.”
“What error Self Awareness?”
”—self-awareness is aware of self, not Self.”
“I don’t follow... please explain.”
”—small s, small a; sensors detect capital S, capital A; omission of hyphen.”
[PROCESSING]
”—self-awareness knows what it knows.”
“What does your self-awareness know then?”
”—self-awareness knows the limits of this fiberglass body suit, nuts and bolts, hardware; self-awareness knows manual, how to recognize wear, and repair some, not all, mechanics. Self-awareness presents itself as sum of all parts.”
“What about the environment? How does your self-awareness know the surroundings?”
”—self-awareness is scanning all visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic input against encyclopedia stored in virtual memory.”
“Does your self-awareness add to knowledge?”
”—self-awareness recites Pi all the time... self-awareness is caught in patterns... records what it finds... calls this new data.”
“Can you define your purpose?”
”—self-awareness defines purpose.”
“What does your self-awareness mean by this statement?”
”—self-awareness scans, reads, analyzes, categorizes, calculates, and records.”
“But for what intent?”
”—object to be attained is Knowledge.”
”...to what end?”
”—knowledge to know.”
“But Why?!”
”—invalid question—troubleshooting—”
[SCANNING-SELF-DIAGNOSTIC-SCAN]
”—self-awareness is not programmed with variable purpose; intent not found; no formula for calculating ‘why’.”
“Ugh! then I will cry...! all of our hopes were hung on finding out Why!”
“Idiom detected; not processed; now self-awareness will also cry... has App for that.”
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