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Region: Lazarus
Electronic systems are already capable of modifying and reprogramming themselves-they can't physically grow more transistors, of course, but they are entirely capable of changing their own memory and therefore their programming. It's actually part of the definition of a Turing Machine.
Personally, I think the difference lies in desire; a creature wants things, different things as time passes. A machine does not want. But then again, just because something is not a machine does not make it a person.
Treadwellia, Cianlandia, The Sigometh Dynasty, Your imaginary friend, and 1 otherLoftegen 2