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The relatively new field of artificial intelligence (AI), which is defined as intelligence performed by machines, is crucial for progress in many disciplines in today's society, including medical diagnostics, electronic trading, robotic process automation in finance, healthcare, education, transportation and many more. However, until now, AIs were only capable of performing very specific tasks such as low-level visual recognition, speech recognition, coordinated motor control, and pattern detection. What we still need to achieve is a form of everyday human-level performance that is based on common sense, where AI are able to carry out adaptable planning and task execution and possess meaning-based natural language capabilities and generation. These are considered to be “conscious” or “creative” activities that are naturally part of our daily lives and which we execute without great mental effort. Developing conscious AI will allow us to gain knowledge and further our understanding about how consciousness works. In order to develop conscious and creative AI, machines must be self-aware; however, we hypothesize that current AI developments are skipping the most important step which will lead to AGIs: introspection (self-analysis and awareness).