Good question!
If you are in front of a mirror while you are carrying out about your day, how would that affect you? What do you do when you are in front of a mirror?
More likely the precence of yourself animates you into this recursive dance.
I think mirrors in general are interesting objects for metaphors, myths, etc.
In Godel Escher Bach, they refer to mirrors to describe how consciousness might be that infinitely recursive feedback that happens when you turn a camcorder onto its own output. This causes a step-pyramid-like tunnel of infinite length.
This is a nice hypothesis, but without evidence, I'd say that it is improbable that consciousness is precisely a hall of mirrors effect.
With no evidence, not even moderately compelling evidence, one should assign a probability of less than 5% of it being correct
My _belief_ is that consciousness is more as Dennet explains it, which is as a purely deterministic thing. Or rather, it's more like an infinite dog-chases-tail thing. Am I aware? Yes. How do I know? Ask me. Am I aware? Yes..
A lot of truths will never be answered because people will never be satisfied or understand the answers.
I find that a lot of philosophers are just constantly carrying out their own wishful thinking by arguing certain things to death
i.e. you don't have to go to riduculous lengths to say that you are uncertain that God doesn't exist and then qualify it with the idea that you are "uncertain that you are uncertain, and uncertain about that, etc.."
