The Agent Does Not Have A Body.

Been thinking through limits of AI. It seems to me that AI does not have a body and thus cannot become self-aware. It has no self to become aware of, no embodied point of view. AI does not have emotions and does not want to have sex and reproduce as humans do. so it's intelligence has no innate purpose (as near as I can tell)...or perhaps better said, it will be/is an intelligence that will not work on a human scale? I am new to writing about AI. And, as you can guess by presence here, use LLMS every day.

I think about these ideas daily as I teach somatics - detailed, highly-unique movements that give feedback to the nervous system and increase self-awareness. Might sound flakey, but it is based on some simple nervous symptom properties such as various Fechner-Weber properties and just noticable diffferences.

I have a short, audio and email based course if anyone wants it: https://www.ryannagy.com/

I created the sessions more than a decade before even thinking about AI.

Peace!

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The Agent Does Not Have A Body.