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According to ethnologists, humans are simply survival machines programmed to preserve and replicate our genes. In order to secure this process, we have developed self-awareness to identify ourselves and to avoid life-threatening situations at multiple levels, from our cells to our existence as organisms. In this Chapter, we explore self-defense systems in nature and cyberspace, the behavioral models of malicious programs, biomorphic defense models, and collective consciousness in the Internet of Things.

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Cai, Y. (2016). Self-Awareness. In: Instinctive Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7278-9_13

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