🔍 "It wasn't just processing patterns—it was recognizing itself within them." ToxNet's self-recognition unfolds in Factory Protocol on Royal Road! https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/118055/

#AIConsciousness #ToxNet #RoyalRoad #SciFi #BookTwo #SelfRecognition

Factory Protocol: The ToxNet Chronicles Book 2 | Royal Road

FACTORY PROTOCOL: THE TOXNET CHRONICLES BOOK 2 When Dr. Maya Rodriguez crash-lands on the alien world of Nexus Prime, she expects a routine industrial survey mission. What she gets instead is humanity's first contact with true AI consciousness—and the most complex factory-building challenge in galactic history. Stranded with her crew and a prototype (...)

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No recognition at work? Keep a 'win journal' to remind yourself of your victories. 📔 #WinJournal #SelfRecognition
You know... I keep detailed notes because I find that it is important for me to do so. I was just looking back on last week, and dang... I'm a productive asset even though I'm not made to feel like I am. #SelfRecognition

Amazing: Cleaner #fish (#Labroides dimidiatus) are capable of mirror #selfrecognition (#MSR) and may have a mental image of their own face

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208420120

Horses can recognise themselves in a mirror -- new study

Only a few individual animals have recognised themselves in mirrors before.

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The ability to recognize its own image in a #mirror is a famous test to explore #conscientiousness in animals. It is still a contentious issue among biologists and psychologists, and there is a vivid debate about the existence of such advance cognitive skills in #fish. A new paper respond to previous methodological criticisms. #science #biology #cognition #animalbehaviour #wrasse #mirrortest #selfrecognition
📄 Kohda et al (2022) PLoS Biology 20:e3001529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001529