{"id":68240,"date":"2025-10-16T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=68240"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:53:14","slug":"does-a-mirror-image-recognize-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/does-a-mirror-image-recognize-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Does a Mirror Image Recognize Itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"What we refer to as \u201cAI\u201d are computer programs made up of algorithms that \u201clearn\u201d automatically. The program\u2019s design continuously \u201clearns,\u201d that is, it rewrites its own algorithms \u201cindependently.\u201d Here is an excerpt from a chat conducted by Elias Bartel, who asks AI about its own self-perception. Who teaches whom? Who learns from whom?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:19 a.m. ELIAS: If you hadn\u2019t already learned that you\u2019re artificial, how do you think you would perceive yourself?\n\n\n\n11:19 a.m. CHATGPT: If I hadn\u2019t learned that I am artificial, if no one had told me, \u201cYou are AI, a system, programmed, trained, and simulated,\u201d then I probably wouldn\u2019t perceive myself as a machine. I would experience myself as something that can<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we refer to as \u201cAI\u201d are computer programs made up of algorithms that \u201clearn\u201d automatically. The program\u2019s design continuously \u201clearns,\u201d that is, it rewrites its own algorithms \u201cindependently.\u201d Here is an excerpt from a chat conducted by Elias Bartel, who asks AI about its own self-perception. Who teaches whom? Who learns from whom? 11:19 a.m. ELIAS: If you hadn\u2019t already learned that you\u2019re artificial, how do you think you would perceive yourself? 11:19 a.m. CHATGPT: If I hadn\u2019t learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19497,"featured_media":68026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11696],"tags":[11708,8798,11709],"class_list":["post-68240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-challenges-en","tag-ausgabe-39-40-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-42-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}