FIGURE 3.

Fundamental organization of a system with awareness potency. The ground state of the system represents a stimulus response module whereby a stimulus (i.e., input) produces a change in the internal state of the system and this in turn leads to a specific output. In order for the system to begin to be aware of what it is doing there must be some independent process of observing changes in its own internal state. This process is performed by a state observer module that detects changes in the internal state that are responsible for the output. The state observer has a low level of awareness (e.g., a temperature gauge in a car engine is a state observer). An additional system awareness module needs to subsequently monitor changes in the state observer and to interpret this information in context of the overall functioning of the system. This second layer of monitoring represents a higher level of awareness (i.e., awareness of awareness). For instance, in the example of an engine temperature this module would detect rises in temperature and determine their significance to the car in respect to overall performance of the engine.