We don't equate self awareness with consciousness.
Dogs are conscious, but still bark at themselves in a mirror.
Then there is the third axis, intelligence. To continue your chain:
Eurasian magpies are conscious, but also know themselves in the mirror (the "mirror self-recognition" test).
But yet, something is still missing.
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Then there is the third axis, intelligence. To continue your chain:
Eurasian magpies are conscious, but also know themselves in the mirror (the "mirror self-recognition" test).
But yet, something is still missing.