I don't think so. The concept of self is distinct from an image (or other representation). If I run pylint against the pylint source code, it has a representa

I don't think so. The concept of self is distinct from an image (or other representation). If I run pylint against the pylint source code, it has a representation of itself. It's not aware that those lines of code are in any way special to it. I don't think it mystically becomes self-aware because of that situation. In your lingo, something can know what it looks like without taking its aspects into consideration. I think the inverse is true, though: something that cannot perceive a representation of itself cannot be self-aware.