I would vote for revisiting Hofstadter and perhaps even Piaget. And if we want to bother trying to define and operationalize self-consciousness—-then Guillery’s

I would vote for revisiting Hofstadter and perhaps even Piaget. And if we want to bother trying to define and operationalize self-consciousness—-then Guillery’s The Brain as a Tool—is a good foray into how the CNS pulls off this simple trick.