Rational self-awareness, sure. But I believe higher animals and babies have self-awareness in that they are conscious of their own perceptions. It's difficult t

Rational self-awareness, sure. But I believe higher animals and babies have self-awareness in that they are conscious of their own perceptions. It's difficult to put it in words without falling in circular definitions, but the key feature would be higher brain features working on top of the low-level automatic reflex information processing. Simpler animals like wasps and worms don't seem to have those, or have really simple versions; their behaviours look more like following hardwired programs reacting to specific conditions, not influenced by some inner "mind state".