This paper addresses the question of whether AI can have self-awareness in the Brentanian framework of inner perception and Kriegel’s view on self-representationalism. First, I will discuss the notion of inner perception in Brentano, showing that, when one is conscious of the object of consciousness, at the same time, she is conscious of that mental state, and there is a subjective unity....
n contemporary theories, it is thought that the subject essentially initiates conscious perception. St. Augustine is one of the philosophers who acknowledges this idea via his active perception notion. In Section 1, I will address Augustine’s distinction between vision or visio and cognition or cogitatio. In Section 2, I will focus on Augustine’s notion of intentio to demonstrate the supremacy...