With that assertion, every running PC has consciousness and a self-bootstrapping compiler or a debugger attached to itself are sentient?
Doesn't seem meaningful.
Doesn't seem meaningful.
No standard debugger is capable of being attached to it's own instance.
Nor does a self-bootstrapping compiler point towards it's own instance.
I think from these two examples I should clarify:
A process that processes itself as an input, is definitionally self-aware.