~~ "mind cannot know itself". (Well, hardly at all. Thus far. And then there is the large question about scale.) 'We' are well within that Box.
Apart from trying to parse the conundrum though: we haven't the foggiest! about what "self awareness" means - though we mouth the words as if we not only knew, but .. are almost sure that it's just a question of techno + time before we "break the code".
Heh. Dunno what you call that tacit presumption: I call it Cosmic Hubris. Unless you also presume that, such awareness as, "I Know That I Am!" is some matter for mathematical deduction and then engineering?
(No, I cannot 'prove' what we "might discover about selves" over a few eons (were we to survive our own death wish that long. An infinitesimal chance, that?)). I can categorize fantasies though, based upon the level of self-awareness achieved thus far: I deem it miniscule and a *very* mechanical model - letting well alone the impossibility of "constructing" [Something with!] the emotional response to: An actual Realization that, "I Know That I Am".
I think Johnny blew it on this one - elementary Metaphysics 101. Clever fellow, though. As was Alan Turing. But as philosophers ??
Ashton
awed to be opposing such as Johnny. What do I think I Be?