The only way to build a recursive loop is to say that awareness is some state (the output of the awareness process). But that just begs the question, how could

The only way to build a recursive loop is to say that awareness is some state (the output of the awareness process). But that just begs the question, how could awareness be a state? If it is a meta-phenomena (i.e., the result of some sort of complexity or self-referential loop) then what exactly is aware that one is aware?