I'm a total layman in this field, so these are just unsupported thoughts. It seems to me that a brain going meta - thinking about thinking - could be what lead

I'm a total layman in this field, so these are just unsupported thoughts. It seems to me that a brain going meta - thinking about thinking - could be what leads to a sense of self and thus consciousness. So, do these results imply those things about corvids? This has implications for AI, I believe.