-- 'other awareness' applied to yourself -- I find the work and ideas especially the "attention schema theory" of sentience, consciousness, self-awareness pr

-- 'other awareness' applied to yourself -- I find the work and ideas especially the "attention schema theory" of sentience, consciousness, self-awareness proposed by Michael Graziano[1] most compelling in that area; they as well propose an evolutionary path towards the development of "consciousness" And yeah sure, why should/could the mirror-neurons-"apparatus" _not_ be involved? [1] https://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/ https://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/ : including some The Atlantic essays.