Self-awareness and "Will"

*How does a piece of code have self-awareness?

*A robot should not allow anything to turn off its power.

*A robot should have consistant "will" to be qualified as human-like.
"Guns don't kill, only people do." This saying is based on the fact that a gun is a machine that don't have a "will".
What qualifies a machine to be having "will"?
Self-awareness is one necessary condition for having a will.

*Does a virus have self-awareness / will?
............ cell .......................................................
..............an ant/bee ..........................................
...............a nest of ant/bee ...............................
...............a bird ..................................................
...............a cat ....................................................
...............a monkey / primate .........................

*What does it mean if a robot writes/generates diaries? Many software systems such as OS have event logs. Is that a diary? Probabily not. Why?

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1)Philosophy, 2)Ariticifial Intelligence, 3)Social aspects of technology


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