[pointernil]

-- 'other awareness' applied to yourself --

I find the work and ideas especially the

"attention schema theory"

of sentience, consciousness, self-awareness proposed by Michael Graziano[1] most compelling in that area; they as well propose an evolutionary path towards the development of "consciousness"

And yeah sure, why should/could the mirror-neurons-"apparatus" _not_ be involved?

[1] https://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/ : including some The Atlantic essays.