Self-awareness
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Self-awareness is the explicit understanding that one exists. Furthermore, it includes the concept that one exists as an individual, separate from other people, with private thoughts. It may also include the understanding that other people are similarly self-aware. Self-awareness remains a critical mystery in philosophy, psychology, biology, and artificial intelligence.
Self-consciousness is credited with the development of identity (see the self). In an epistemological sense, self-consciousness is a personal understanding of the very core of one's own identity. It is during periods of self-consciousness that people come the closest to knowing themselves objectively. Jean Paul Sartre describes self-consciousness as being "non-positional", in that it is not from any location in particular.
Self-consciousness plays a large role in behavior, as it is common to act differently when people "lose one's self in a crowd". It is the basis for human traits, such as accountability and conscientiousness. Self-consciousness affects people in varying degrees, as some people self-monitor (or scrutinize) themselves more than others. Different cultures vary in the importance they place on self-consciousness.
See also
- Anosognosia
- Bicameralism (psychology)
- Boltzmann brain
- Cartesian theater
- Childhood amnesia
- Confidence
- Dunning–Kruger effect
- Feldenkrais Method
- Higher consciousness
- Insight in psychology and psychiatry
- Memory suppression
- Mindfulness
- Lucid dreaming
- Mirror test
- Modesty
- Outline of self
- Self-consciousness
- Sentience
- Vedanta
- Vipassanā
- Yoga Nidra
