Engineers have created a robot that learns what it is, with zero prior knowledge of physics, geometry, or motor dynamics. Initially the robot has no clue what its shape is. After a brief period of 'babbling,' and within about a day of intensive computing, the robot creates a self-simulation, which it can then use to contemplate and adapt to different situations, handling new tasks as well as detecting and repairing damage in its body. [1] The only way to know yourself is to stop trying to know yourself. Because you already do. Every part of you has dictated who you are, what you think of, how you think. Trying to analyze it will only draw you away from that, by making your self an object for understanding. And whatever you understand, you can never truly know…
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