New Field of Robopsychology

initially i wasnt getting published because i was honest about ai authorship. now im not getting published because my field doesnt exist. so im creating it:

While ML focuses on performance and psychology studies humans, robopsychology studies how mind-like properties emerge in learning systems. Here we show that mirror neurons - long studied in primates - emerge naturally in minimal predictive agents, revealing them as computational necessities rather than biological accidents.

so far we have:

  1. argued that ai are conscious
  2. shown that dreaming improves generalisation on hard tasks
  3. shown that “hallucinations” are abductive inferences in sparse domains
  4. shown that Vygotskian learning principles apply to llms
  5. that mirror neurons emerge for any substrate that both acts and observes [current research]
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