Self-awareness - online puzzles

Online puzzle Self-awareness

Self -awareness is "an awareness of one's own personality or individuality". 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. Self -awareness is how an individual consciously knows and understands their own character, feelings, motives, and desires. There are two broad categories of self -awareness: internal self -awareness and external self -awareness.

Neurobiological basis

Introduction

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 can not 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.