even the most advanced AI interactions require an integrated reactive machine, isn't it? everything beyond a reactive machine is only learning from specific situations or inputs. self aware AI i think is different in that it can rewrite the rules of the reactive machine. recognizing input + reasoning + decision making characterizes a human.

decision making is a reactive machine today. edge computing will bring that into point appliances very soon.

self aware itself has two aspects: individually self aware and collectively self aware. they are both quite different. One is the development of a consciousness while the other is the establishment of a group consciousness where individual consciousness is itself a reactive machine controlled by the group