No, but it does imply that it has the information about its own prediction process encoded in its weights such that there’s no reason it would have to encode that information twice by also re-encoding it as part of its knowledge of the world as well.
OK, it sounds like we agree then? Like, the Predict-O-Matic might have an unusually easy time modeling itself in certain ways, but other than that, it doesn’t get special treatment because it has no special awareness of itself as an entity?
Edit: Trying to provide an intuition pump for what I mean here—in order to avoid duplicating information, I might assume that something which looks like a stapler behaves the same way as other things I’ve seen which looks like staplers—but that doesn’t mean I think all staplers are the same object. It might in some cases be sensible to notice that I keep seeing a stapler lying around and hypothesize that there’s just one stapler which keeps getting moved around the office. But that requires that I perceive the stapler as an entity every time I see it, so entities which were previously separate in my head can be merged. Whereas arguendo, my prediction machinery isn’t necessarily an entity that I recognize; it’s more like the water I’m swimming in in some sense.
OK, it sounds like we agree then? Like, the Predict-O-Matic might have an unusually easy time modeling itself in certain ways, but other than that, it doesn’t get special treatment because it has no special awareness of itself as an entity?
Edit: Trying to provide an intuition pump for what I mean here—in order to avoid duplicating information, I might assume that something which looks like a stapler behaves the same way as other things I’ve seen which looks like staplers—but that doesn’t mean I think all staplers are the same object. It might in some cases be sensible to notice that I keep seeing a stapler lying around and hypothesize that there’s just one stapler which keeps getting moved around the office. But that requires that I perceive the stapler as an entity every time I see it, so entities which were previously separate in my head can be merged. Whereas arguendo, my prediction machinery isn’t necessarily an entity that I recognize; it’s more like the water I’m swimming in in some sense.
I don’t think we do agree, in that I think pressure towards simple models implies that they won’t be dualist in the way that you’re claiming.