Re: Can a Machine become self-aware?

Are you aware Jan that not only
you have 'no self-awareness' but also
you have no free will?

Well, I do seem to be self-aware, even evaluate what I am - and have been - doing.
3 days all day long computa all weekend..
And some garden work.
I tested the high temperature warning here by going out in the garden and watched a movie on the laptop in the sun.
The laptop housing got so hot that if you touched it it felt like burning your fingers.
Very bright sun, but could still follow the screen display.
Old Samsung laptop, from 2011, still has a DVD player / writer in it, latest Ubuntu on it...
Screen display is very good.
Maybe for brighter (even brighter than this it won't get?) light I have a Pocketbook Aqua2, just for data, not for movies.
Anyways 32 degrees outside measured here.
That Aqua2 is nice for on a boat..

As always: experimenting, writing scrips ...

So self-aware..
Free Willy? Sure, depends on your point of view, did you plan your own birth? And where you grew up?
Much depends on the environment, genetics passed on from parents, education, etc etc..

One day, when I am 'gone', some of my electrons and other chemical parts will maybe become part of you
or others.
If you go into quantum coupling some of what I did may make them steer what others do..

Sound of thunder now here, lightning, better stay inside, flashes ..
Got some more code to write and test.