Adjective
self-generating (not comparable)
Producing something (such as electrical power) within or for itself.
a self-generating gas lamp
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Richard Wright
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance. Jane Smiley