<P> Self - awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals . It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia . While consciousness is being aware of one's environment and body and lifestyle, self - awareness is the recognition of that awareness . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This microessay on Ramachandran, rather than the whole of the field relies largely or entirely on a single source . Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources . (July 2016) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This microessay on Ramachandran, rather than the whole of the field relies largely or entirely on a single source . Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources . (July 2016) </Td> </Tr> <P> There are questions regarding what part of the brain allows us to be self - aware and how we are biologically programmed to be self - aware . V.S. Ramachandran has speculated that mirror neurons may provide the neurological basis of human self - awareness . In an essay written for the Edge Foundation in 2009, Ramachandran gave the following explanation of his theory: "...I also speculated that these neurons cannot only help simulate other people's behavior but can be turned' inward'--as it were--to create second - order representations or meta - representations of your own earlier brain processes . This could be the neural basis of introspection, and of the reciprocity of self awareness and other awareness . There is obviously a chicken - or - egg question here as to which evolved first, but...The main point is that the two co-evolved, mutually enriching each other to create the mature representation of self that characterizes modern humans ." </P>

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