Why think this is true? If "self-consciousness" means "able to self-represent", this is possible for machines today. If it means "have experience / feelings / qualia", then it's equally a mystery how the meat in our headsanother reply to you, "consious" in this sense has little to do with capacity for action. If it means something else, I'd have to hear what. can have it - and as @deepsynergy points out in