Depends on the network; that sort of self evaluation certainly requires recurrency. But I don't think it's impossible - there's a certain psychedelic quality

Depends on the network; that sort of self evaluation certainly requires recurrency. But I don't think it's impossible - there's a certain psychedelic quality to hallucinations, they tend to over represent certain fundamental features of the thing that they believe they're representing. I remember seeing a bunch of almost kaleidoscopic looking (as far as I remember, all were rotationally symmetrical) images, that had been generated by seeking out and exploring the latent spaces for given classifications. The images that were generated this way always had more (apparently) in common with each other than genuine images of the type that they were classified as; And I highly doubt that the characteristics of those images are so special that a bit of self evaluation could not detect them as a group.