From a Synthetic Auto Biographical Memory toward the Emergence of Different Levels of Self a Case Study with the iCub Humanoid Robot
The objective of the following study is to define the influence of an Autobiographical Memory and its two main components the Episodic Memory and the Semantic Memory in the emergence of the notion of "self" I will focus on the functional part of the autobiographical memory rather that on its technical and neuronal aspect. Then I will describe the implementation of an synthetic autobiographical memory in an Humanoid Robot the iCub. I will show how this synthetic autobiographical memory can participate with the help of several reasoning modules, in the emergence of the self. Concerning the aspect of self, we decided to work about Ulric Neisser's four components of the self described in 1995 the Ecological Self, the Interpersonal Self, the Conceptual Self and the Temporally Extended Self