Of all living creatures, only man possesses the possibility self-awareness.

 While animals have the ability to direct their attention they aren’t able to direct their awareness to themselves and experience a sense of Self. Scientific experiments have shown that most animals attack their own image in the mirror. Only apes, the most advanced of all animals and the most similar to man, can become cognizant of their own image – perhaps hints of embryonic tendencies towards self-consciousness.
Therefore, self-consciousness can only fully manifest in human beings, the realization of oneself as a separate entity in this place and time. However, such self-consciousness exists only as potential. Most human beings aren’t normally aware of themselves, except in unusual circumstances. In the page levels of consciousness we explore the natural state of man and his possibilities of self-consciousness.

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