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except there is no observer to be aware of itself - all you're achieving with your wrapper is increasing the likelihood of producing text that says what a self-aware thing would say.

maybe I just won't ever get past my hangup of "it's clockwork that only works when you crank the driveshaft"

until it has some autonomy that it is programmed to protect (a mortality, a survival instinct), there's no self to consider

*IANACR [consciousness researcher]



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