Infants, and robots that take the learning process of infants as their inspiration, generate time-locked patterns of sensorimotor stimulation for themselves by poking at things, manipulating them, and so on. The sight of your own hand moving through space gets bound to the feeling of this action. The child develops an embodied self-awareness through learning the properties of objects. Different objects resist his body in various ways (light or heavy, soft or hard, slippery or sticky,
