Some Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Requirements for Self-Awareness

This paper motivates and defines a notion of explicit selfawareness, one that implies human-like scope of the selfmodel, and an explicit internal representation susceptible to general inference methods and permitting overt communication about the self. The features proposed for knowledge representation and reasoning supporting explicit selfawareness include natural language-like expressiveness, autoepistemic inference grounded in a computable notion of knowing/believing, certain metasyntactic devices, and an ability to abstract and summarize stories. A small preliminary example of self-awareness involving knowledge of knowledge categories is attached as an appendix.