Can self-consciousness be a mistake?

Self-Consciousness is an error, a programming mistake. An anomally. A general protection fault. Contradiction is the catalyst of consciousness and philosophy. That which shouldn't be but is. Non-thinking material causing self-reflective existence. It can only be a paradox. It is a paradox.

This coheres with the theory of random genetic mutation. But how can a mistake, a parameter incorrectly passed, the parser not understanding the command line (what is the mind equivolent?) cause consciousness? or even self-consciousness?

Cause and effect -> pattern recognition and memory plus behaviour stimulus -> levels of pattern recognition and extrapolation in simple and cluster concepts, and imagination of senses -> imagining concept of self = self?

Is self-consciousness then a by-product of imagination, both in origin and cause?