Human consciousness and its relationship to social neuroscience

Will this be the basis/model for self-aware AI?<p>The Graziano Lab stated an interesting thesis about the possible evolutionary roots and conceptual setup of mammal and human attention / awareness and consciousness.<p>http://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/Consciousness_Research<p>This discussion paper: http://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/Cog_Neurosci2011_98.pdf<p>states the idea of self-awareness as developed from the evolutionary transformation of brain systems modeling and predicting awareness of <i>others</i> and coupling those models with a location-property; later maybe creating a special location: within the bounds of the own body. (check the paper as obviously such a summary can only be incomplete maybe even wrong ;)<p>The thesis provides an interesting gradual/evolutionary development path for consciousness / self-awareness and tries resolve some of the recursive and self-referential riddles coupled with the big mystery of consciousness. Plus: some insights into what out of body experiences are and what those spooky "some one is looking at me" feelings could be about.<p>The ideas almost look too promising and too easy to transform into artificial systems...