Yea, but then you have to define what "knowing you exist" means... Does it mean you have a model of the world and you know your place in it, meaning that you ca

Yea, but then you have to define what "knowing you exist" means... Does it mean you have a model of the world and you know your place in it, meaning that you can predict what would happen if you would do this-or-that in your current state? That doesn't seem impossible for an AI and you could argue some of the current reinforcement AIs have a model like that and act according to that but it's not as accurate and complex as humans have. So maybe it's a spectrum depending on how accurate your model is and we just don't have a human level consciousness just as we don't have human level intelligence yet.