Ramachandran has also theorized that mirror neurons may be the key to understanding the neurological basis of human self-awareness.

It's an extraordinary monument to human self-awareness as well as to our awareness of the world around us.

He asked his readers to imagine themselves suspended in the air isolated from all sensations in order to demonstrate human self-awareness and self-consciousness, and the substantiality of the soul.

This was a new idea in the evolution of human self-awareness, a psychological turning point, a liberation, an empowerment.

So there is nothing mysterious in a machine designed by a human showing human self-awareness; the mystery lies in awareness itself, wherever it's found.

But how could instinctive altruism be made compatible with human self-awareness?

Yet as natural and inevitable as human self-awareness may seem, evolutionary biologists and psychologists do not take its existence for granted.

Another predecessor was Avicenna's "Floating Man" thought experiment on human self-awareness and self-consciousness.

While he was imprisoned, Avicenna wrote his famous "Floating Man" thought experiment to demonstrate human self-awareness and the substantiality of the soul.

V.S Ramachandran has speculated that mirror neurons may provide the neurological basis of human self-awareness.