Topic summary
Self-recognition
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Self-awareness.
Definitions and scope
Reflective self-awareness refers to the recognition of one's own consciousness—the ability to think about thoughts, to know that one is perceiving, feeling, and existing. It is often described as "awareness of awareness" and forms the basis for introspection, metacognition, and personal identity. This sense of self-awareness is studied in philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and comparative cognition, where it is linked to neural processes of reflection and self-recognition.