Full Idea
Is consciousness just a special type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a special way of being conscious?
Gist of Idea
Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious?
Source
Robert van Gulick (Mirror Mirror - Is That All? [2006], Intro)
Book Reference
'Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness', ed/tr. Kriegel,U /Williford,K [MIT 2006], p.11
A Reaction
This is a really good key question, which has hovered over the debate since Locke's definition of a person (as 'self-aware'). I take the self to be a mechanism of most brains, which is prior to consciousness. Maybe the two are inseparable.