Studying Introspection in Animals and AIs
The study of introspection has, up until now, been predominantly human-centric, with regrettably little attention devoted to the question of whether introspection might exist in non-humans, such as animals and artificial intelligence (AI), and what distinct forms it might take. In their
target article, Kammerer and Frankish (this issue) aim to address this oversight by offering a non-anthropocentric framework for understanding introspection that could be used to address these questions. However, their discussions on introspection in animals and AIs were quite brief. In this
commentary, we will build on their suggestions to offer some methodological guidance for how future research into introspection in animals and AIs might proceed.
Keywords: ANIMAL MINDS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DESIGN; EVOLUTION; INTROSPECTION
Document Type: Commentary
Affiliations: 1: University of Southampton, UK 2: University of Bristol, UK, & Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Germany
Publication date: 01 September 2023
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