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Intuitive Machines

In this article, a sensory examination, developed to investigate the nature of consciousness, is administered to a robot named BING. The test is called One-to-One or 121. It is a basic color or pattern test used primarily to identify the observable responsive behaviors of a machine. The test is also sometimes called T2T (this-to-that) or x2y (x-to-y). In this test, Bing will be subjected to sense various colors from a deck of art papers and name their colors via the LCD display shield or by flashing colored LEDs. When he detects green, he will move forward and flash green led. When he detects yellow, he will move backward and flash a yellow led. And when he sees the color red, he will move his head towards me and flash a red led. This ability of a machine to cross-match colors manifests evidence of Associative Consciousness. In another attempt to define consciousness, Joey Lawsin, the creator of Biotronics also coined the catchphrase "the Human Mental Handicap". It i...