It seems all I need is to make an application that can perceive itself, i.e. has an "ego" of some kind.
Feedback loops are a way, but it kind of defeats the entire purpose of coding a self-perceptron! Here's why: If I want the application to perceive backwards in time, the temporal regresses (possibly hypercomputational) are MY burden and I have to calculate them myself.
So, how the hell do I do this shit?