Full Idea
It is tempting to think that if a system has concepts for nested intentionality and first-person reflection, it has all that's needed for self-consciousness.
Gist of Idea
Self-consciousness may just be nested intentionality
Source
Georges Rey (Contemporary Philosophy of Mind [1997], 11.2.2)
Book Reference
Rey,Georges: 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' [Blackwell 1997], p.292
A Reaction
If there nothing more than nested intentionality in complex minds like ours, the top level of the nesting would still have a special status. And if the top level always seemed to stay the same while the lower levels changed, I'd probably call it the Self