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by curryst 1725 days ago
I don't think so. The concept of self is distinct from an image (or other representation). If I run pylint against the pylint source code, it has a representation of itself. It's not aware that those lines of code are in any way special to it. I don't think it mystically becomes self-aware because of that situation.

In your lingo, something can know what it looks like without taking its aspects into consideration.

I think the inverse is true, though: something that cannot perceive a representation of itself cannot be self-aware.