Presumably Self Awareness

Presumably your self-awareness begins at conception, and thus there is self-awareness even at the cellular level. Now if you, and here 'you' could be a plant or a microbe, respond to stimuli (external or internal), then you are self-aware, albeit awareness of self comes in degrees - a mammal is more self-aware than a cactus even though both can respond to stimuli. If you respond to stimuli in a way that's not predictable by the laws of physics then you are self-aware. A rock cannot be a 'you' since it does not respond to stimuli in any way that physics cannot predict and thus a rock is not self-aware.

Chain of Thought: Part One

Your self-awareness resides in your brain. Your sense of self goes wherever your brain goes. It's an unbreakable link.

If, or rather since your …show more content…
If you have no self-awareness of stimuli internal to your body but still external as far as your mind is concerned, then you're dead - or soon will be.

So your self-awareness is dependent on the cooperation of your body (ideally including your five senses) - it's a joint partnership (unless some mad scientist places and nurtures your brain in a vat in which case the vat becomes your body. As I said before, your self-awareness resides in your brain. Your sense of self goes wherever your brain goes).

As an aside, you can have a functioning brain without a mind (that which generates self-awareness) like when you're in a deep dreamless sleep or in a coma or passed out blind drunk, but you can't have a functioning mind without a brain. Just in case you were wondering about that particular chicken-egg or mind-body question.

Chain of Thought: Part Three

Your self-awareness resides in your brain. Your sense of self goes wherever your brain goes. That also applies to a lot of other personality