Re: What language will be used to write the first self aware program?

The language in which intelligence will be created in is arbitrary.
This is because the structures in a mind that makes it intelligent are
rather removed from the operations that make it actually work. For
example in the human mind the exact composition of neurons is
irrelevant, only that they work. Thus a language with the ability to
inspect its self at runtime may be useful in wrriting complex programs,
but this feature wouldn't be immediately available to the intelligence.
Consider this: when you reflect on your experiance your reflection
does not contain knowledge of the chemistry of the mind. We can thus
conclude that such reflection asises in a higher level of the mind, not
at the low level that corresponds to programming instructions. I
suggest you read "Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind" By David W
Smith if you want to learm more about the mind and self knowledge.

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