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  1. Speculations on the emergence of self-awareness in big-brained organisms: The roles of associative memory and learning, existential and religious questions, and the emergence of tautologies.Emmanuel Tannenbaum - 2009 - Consciousness and Cognition 18 (2):414-427.
    This paper argues that self-awareness emerges in organisms whose brains have a sufficiently integrated, complex ability for associative learning and memory. Continual sensory input of information related to the organism leads to the formation of a set of associations that may be termed an organismal “self-image”. After providing the basic mechanistic basis for the emergence of an organismal self-image, this paper proceeds to go through a representative list of behaviors associated with self-awareness, and shows how associative memory and learning, combined (...)
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