Box Awareness

What makes something sentient? Well, simply put, it's having sensory perception. But what is sensory perception? If a computer can tell you the temperature, can sense emotion, can answer questions, where does the line of actual perception stop and the illusion of perception begin? A computer may be able to read your face and determine you are mad. It may be able to look at the weather and tell you what you should wear...but neither of those signify a computer's ability to feel for itself...or even really know what it's saying

I wanted to address this in a simple and obvious way. To create a "self aware" box.

The box, if investigated closely calls out all of it's parts. It's right side, top, bottom, left, back, lid, and hinge. It has arrows directing you around, symbols depicting where you are on the box...it even has directions as to how to open, insert, and close. The idea is to create something that is "self aware" without being self aware at all. To show that displaying information is different than understanding information. To act human is different than to be human.

I guess the ultimate application is to the viewer themselves...Are they a representation going through the motions of life, or are you really doing what you want to?