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Just to clarify, you don't believe anyone including yourself is self-aware?

If you believe you are self-aware then I suspect that it's more a problem of recognition than self-awareness being absent.

If you don't believe that you are self-aware, that's really interesting. Please elaborate!

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I think kingkawn is using a less technical meaning that I hear often... "having no self-awareness" ≅ not considering the effects of one's actions.

Certainly I think that's what my parents were implying when they accused me of it. At least I doubt they were worried I was a p-zombie.

That's fair, however I'd put forward that considering consequences is hard and mentally taxing which is why people don't do it much, as opposed to them being unable to do so.

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