Ian D. Mclean The ability to self modify depends critically on
two points. One the preservation of functional identity through
transformation. Two the essential or necessary contradiction of
functional identity as metamorphosis.
Turing machines will never be conscious if they are consistent.
Whatever they do, they will not be able to contradict their
initial conditions and eventual transition through states to
their final state. Not without ceasing function entirely. GIGO.
But computing machines which are fault tolerant and
contradiction tolerant are not necessarily restricted in the
same way. The problem then depends on the ability of the
computing machine to become self-aware of their present state,
past states, and possible future states. This is not a problem
solved by switching combinations and permutations of binary
series of switches. This isn't a problem which can be solved by
a G*delian system because such self-reflection entails a
metalogical collapse of objective and subjective boundaries into
a system which self-contradicts.
Self-awareness is GILO and LIGO. This is a narrative machine. A
fiction machine. A machine that tells themself they have a self
to tell.
