[mediaman]

I wrote that carefully; I'd recommend you re-read more slowly it instead of calling me "psychotic" and telling me that I need to "touch grass."

Of course they have the idea of self! The millions of pages of human text contains it; it is baked into the weights, just like the knowledge of the taste of Cheetos is baked in despite their lack of any taste buds. Their knowledge of it does not mean the neural net is actually a conscious creature or truly has a self.

I assume you do not call people psychotic to their face in real life, because it's mean. Please next time take a pause and consider if there is literally any other way you could communicate your potential disagreement.