learning system gives the agent awareness of its environment by modeling it, and using that model to anticipate future beliefs. It further proposes that a similar mechanism can also implement sentience. That is, it claims that awareness can be implemented with an outward-looking model, and sentience can be implemented with an inward-looking model. Therefore, it proposes to add "introspective senses", which theoretically give the agent the ability to become aware of its own inner feelings, by modeling them, just as it is aware of its external environment. To some extent, MANIC suggests that existing methods already in use in artificial intelligence are unintentionally creating subjective experiences like those typically associated with conscious beings. References External links http://uaf46365.ddns.uark.edu/lab/cogarch.svg, A poster in SVG format that describes the MANIC architecture. https://github.com/mikegashler/manic, A Java implementation of MANIC. Cognitive architecture