Welcome

Mammals, particularly Humans, have an advantage over most other life on Earth – a well developed Ego.  Our brains have evolved to explicitly represent ourselves in relation to what we perceive and what we do – self-consciousness.  We are Ego Machines. This allows us to understand our own behaviour as an intentional agent and reason about others in terms of their intentions and what effect they may have on the future.

To be truly useful, our machines will also need to model their intentions in order to understand ours – in short, to be self-conscious Ego Machines.

Our mission at EgoMachines is to conduct and promote research into the mechanisms of self-awareness in animals and in engineering self-conscious machines.

– Dr. David Jung
  (Founder)