Robot self/other distinction: active inference meets neural networks learning in a mirror

@inproceedings{Lanillos2020RobotSD,
  title={Robot self/other distinction: active inference meets neural networks learning in a mirror},
  author={Pablo Lanillos and Jordi Pag{\`e}s and Gordon Cheng},
  booktitle={ECAI},
  year={2020}
}
Self/other distinction and self-recognition are important skills for interacting with the world, as it allows humans to differentiate own actions from others and be self-aware. However, only a selected group of animals, mainly high order mammals such as humans, has passed the mirror test, a behavioural experiment proposed to assess self-recognition abilities. In this paper, we describe self-recognition as a process that is built on top of body perception unconscious mechanisms. We present an… 
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