self awareness

I was watching a TV programme that, in passing brought up the idea that only humans (and perhaps some of the apes) recognise themselves in a mirror and how dogs don't. The way they concluded that dogs don't is that they don't seem to correlate the image in the mirror to themselves e.g. put a red...

I have been reading Damasio's book Descartes' Error, and am finding his discussions on anosognosia to be very interesting. Anosognosia is a condition in which the sufferer loses his/her sense of body image, usually due to a traumatic physical insult such as a stroke. Without a current body...