Consciousness and self-consciousness are two different things, I think. A baby in the womb of their mother will hear and learn to recognize mother's voice. That

Consciousness and self-consciousness are two different things, I think. A baby in the womb of their mother will hear and learn to recognize mother's voice. That's a good sign of consciousness. The physicalist view on consciousness tends to put everything we do on the basis of 'mechanic' impuse-reaction phenomena in our brain. But, so far, in no way explains very much of what living organisms do, I mean those that show conscious interaction with the environment, animals and humans alike.