[Goony]

The subject of a "self-Conscious computer" has been around for
quite a while. I like to ask all great masters on this forum, which
story or novel introduced this concept. In your opinion, which is
the earliest story that delat with this subject.

[Expendable]

"A Logic Named Joe" (1946) a short story by Murray Leinster.

I'm not sure if The Engine mentioned in Gulliver's Travels (1726) can be concidered self aware or not.

[nealasher]

I'm not sure about 'self-conscious' computers (ones that go, "Aw shucks, stop lookin' at me"). But knowing what you really mean, my first thought was that this would be Asimov and his positronic brain. Checking my SF encyclopedia I see his first robot story appeared in 1940. However, there's ones like the Metal Giants by Edmond Hamilton in 1928. Where they conscious? I don't know. Almost certainly there'll be something earlier than this.

[Goony]

Thank you for your responses. I realized that although we are talking
about the same thing: "self-aware computer", but probably we don't
have a clear definition for self-awareness. Is a typical Assimov robot,
that based on its programming responds to questions and circumstances,
a self-aware computer?

Well..... very interesting :rolleyes:!

[Expendable]

I've always liked Mike (short for Mycroft), the self-aware computer in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1961) by Robert Heinlein.

[Postaurch]

I guess it depends on what you mean by self-aware computer. If you mean a computer in the modern sense (electricity, circutry, programming), then the above suggestions are about right.

If, on the other hand, you mean a self-aware entity created by man through the use of technology, there are arguments for any number of beings going back a couple thousand years.

Some have argued 'Frankenstien'. Some have argued Golems. Frank L. Baum's Tick-toc-man.