[pyeri]

It became a thing due to the experience of self-reflection. The million dollar question is how come humans (and few other organisms) are able to self reflect on their biology, life situations, logic, math and even consciousness itself? However complex and sophisticated a machine's brain is, be it biological or mechanical (AI/AGI), no known laws of science allows it to self-reflect. This is famously called "the hard problem of consciousness" in philosophy which remains unresolved to this day.

[zkmon]

Self-reflecting may not be the distinct enough feature. Any physical/chemical/electrical reaction can be termed as self-reflecting, as it reflects on what just happened and then responds with an effect. AI is already able to reflect on it's outputs and refine them, and distinguish between the user and it's own identity. Living things have evolved senses and long-term memory to help them with faster macro-responses beyond the usual physical reactions.

When a ball hits a bat, the ball also has a short-term memory and sense in the forms of how the inter-molecular forces detect and respond to the event of getting too close to the molecules of the bat and react with a repelling force. A more evolved form would be your consciousness.

Further, a lot of living things on earth might not have self-awareness.

[visarga]

It doesn't reflect itself, we only see the UI of a complex process, not the real thing. We don't understand what happened in our brains any better for being able to feel conscious. We can only be conscious of what is cost effective and cost necessary to feel, in order to persist and survive. Animals for example and primitive humans could reproduce without understanding reproduction mechanisms, just the operational side.

[Tadpole9181]

> However complex and sophisticated a machine's brain is, be it biological or mechanical (AI/AGI), no known laws of science allows it to self-reflect.

...What? If a human brain can, that's quite literally proof a machine can? We are made out of matter that obeys the laws of physics.

And we have never made a machine remotely complicated enough to mimick a human brain. LLMs are the closest we've ever come, and they're not even close. Nor are the even made in a way condusive to doing so (focused on generating requested output, not postulating randomly). So as to the mechanical machine specifically, nothing exists to even be capable of being observed to make such a claim!