17th June 2003, 1:13 PM
Naw, it isn't. I was just thinking and realized the obvious. A program could easily be made so that a computer would be able to use a mirror to see itself and use that data to do stuff to itself, well not easily :D, but it could be done, and the computer could hardly be said to be self-aware.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)