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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