Summary: A recent study provides fresh perspectives into this difficult phenomenon by examining how robots can type and check various aspects of the human sense of self. Robots can be used in experiments to examine how people perceive robots as sociable entities, such as body rights and company.
Findings suggest that robots might be able to aid researchers in understanding how dementia or autism develop their sense of self and what occurs when it is hampered. This multidisciplinary approach connects mental robotics, philosophy, and psychology to deepen our understanding of human personality.
Important Facts:
- Robots can design self-related procedures like organization and body ownership.
- Research has shown that robots have cultural traits and mutual company.
- Future studies might look at how people experience self-disorders in circumstances like schizophrenia.
Origin: IIT
A mental roboticist, a mental psychologist, and a psychiatrist discuss the idea of” sense of self” in people in a recent review report in Science Robotics.
All of us as humans experience the feeling of being the same soul from day to day and of seeing others as being selves as well as the feeling of being a self that is contained within our bodies and capable of acting in the world.  ,
Robots could be used either as embodied models of the self ( and its sub-components ) or as testing platforms for psychological experiments.
The writers suggest that some of the processes that contribute to people ‘” sense of self” may be produced in computers.
The authors are Kai Vogeley, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at University of Cologne in Germany, Agnieszka Wykowska, Head of Social Cognition in the Human-Robot Interaction Unit at the Italian Institute of Technology ( IIT-IT ), Tony Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at University of Sheffield in the UK, and Agnieszka Wykowska, Head of Social Cognition in the Human-Robot Interaction unit.
The investigation comes from the notion that having a system, feeling it, and going through actions and interactions is an intrinsic part of human nature. The individual sense of self, which includes the feeling of “owning” a body and having “agency,” or having control over one’s actions, is a crucial finding in recent research studies in animal cognition.
Today’s roboticists want to build robots that can reliably distinguish between their own bodies ( the self-other distinction ) and assess the effects of their own deeds ( agency ). From this perspective, robots can function as embodied representations of the mental processes that underlie the sense of self.
Robots, who have body and can connect with both humans and their surroundings, can also be used as experimental probes to explore the sense of self.
These two distinct applications for drones are explored by the three writers.
The first is to create robots to create processes that affect people’s head and brain in terms of psychology and neuroscience.  ,
According to recent studies, the brain’s best way to understand its sensory experience and its own role in producing those visual signals is through the development of a sense of self.  , A machine, being a physically embodied comedian, is a ideal platform to examine those ideas.
The second method involves manipulating robots to perform internal experiments on humans while the robots exhibit social skills, such as joint attention or language communication.
These tests may reveal whether people actually perceive these robots as social beings and whether their mental states correspond to those they experience when they interact with other people.
As a result of some experiments carried out by Wykowska’s team at IIT, it has been demonstrated that humans often experience combined firm with robots when they work together as a team and when the machine is viewed as an unintentional agent.
The authors also link the potential for computers to inherit some of the sense of self that humans have throughout their lives have developed. For example, by age 4, kids have a sense of themselves as existing through time, and of other persons as also having self.
By developing robot storage systems that are comparable to animal personal memory, these aspects of personal are beginning to become investigated in humans.  , However, this work is at an early stage, current robots do not have awareness of themselves as persisting from day to day, nor are they aware of others ( humans or robots ) as being selves.  ,
The article also makes reference to potential breakthroughs and empty problems with understanding one’s own home through robotics, particularly when it is compromised by a person’s mental health, such as dementia or dementia.  ,
Researchers hope that scientists will be able to achieve fresh insights into the foundational principles of the self-experience by understanding this diversity.
About this research in psychiatry and technology
Author: Valeria delle Cave
Source: IIT
Contact: Valeria delle Cave – IIT
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Agnieszka Wykowska and others ‘” Robotics for Self-Awareness: A New Approach” Science Robotics
Abstract
Robotics for Self-Awareness: A New Approach
Robotics may be useful in the study of the sense of self through the use of robots as experimental satellites to study the human soul as well as through the creation of embodied models of the home.
In both cases, the essence of the machine allows us to design and test hypotheses about the nature of the self, with regard to its growth, its manifestation in conduct, and the variety of selves in humans, animals, and, possibly, machines.
This paper reviews robotics research that examines the concepts of the self, including the little self, the extended self, and self-disorders, and provides an overview of how self-constructing artificial systems might help people understand the self.
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