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Self Awareness refers to our concious knowledge that we had as regards our own characters and feelings. It refers to the awareness about our own personality. So let us learn about various levels of self awareness on the bais of mirror neurons which provide the neurological bais of our self awareness.
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it is the level of confusion. In this Level, an individual self awareness about him is zero or nil. A person is unaware of any mirror reflecting or the mirror itself. They view the mirror as an compulsion of their environment. This level is also displayed when the person is dared as he is unable to identify himself.
This level is the level of differentiation . The individual realises that thr mirror reflects. They notices that what is in the mirror id different form the surroundings. In this level they are able to differentiate between their own movement in the mirror and the movement of the surroundings environment.
It is a situation based level . The individual understands the motions on the mirror he views within his body. This is the first time of self exploration on a glooming surface what is viewed in the mirror is special to self.
It is level of indentification. This one is featured by the new ability to identify our self. The individual seeing in mirror can understand that it is himself not any else in the mirror.
This one is of permanence. Once the person reaches this stage they can identify themselves beyond the mirror image. They are able to identify themselves in their self previous pictures of them looking young and different. At this level they experience a self permanece.
This one is about self consciousness or meta awareness . In this level not only the self seen from a first person view but can also see from viewpoint of third person. The person can understand what others think about him and the opinion about hin in public.
