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Providing Self-Aware Systems with Reflexivity
We propose a new type of self-aware systems inspired by ideas from
higher-order theories of consciousness. First, we discussed the crucial
distinction between introspection and reflexion. Then, we focus on
computational reflexion as a mechanism by which a computer program can inspect
its own code at every stage of the computation. Finally, we provide a formal
definition and a proof-of-concept implementation of computational reflexion,
viewed as an enriched form of program interpretation and a way to dynamically
"augment" a computational process.Comment: 12 pages plus bibliography, appendices with code description, code of
the proof-of-concept implementation, and examples of executio