Are most people self aware?

[Mosess]

When i make eye contact with anyone it almost seems like they are becoming aware of their self through me.

Are most people self aware? And can someone become self aware from engaging with someone else?

 

[meow_meow]

Yeah, in-fact a recent study found out that even Crows are self aware.

[Origins]

Self awareness has (1) incredibly intricate dynamics (2) all of which express various levels of themselves as we can observe in the animal kingdom. Though we project our own understanding of self awareness of course by looking at our inner experience, transposing that onto the outer environment and then saying we're more self aware because we have more of our own kind of self awareness which sounds kind of ridiculous when you really see what we're doing, as doing that reflects extremely low self awareness, ironically. This means there's likely dynamics of self awareness we will never comprehend nor be able to experience, not because we're "too self aware" but because its built differently, I'd argue that self awareness at its optimal levels across the population we'd still see variation in certain kinds and qualities of self awareness. We always create equilibriums, lines of best fit, lines in the sand, etc, but still, the nuance of our experience is often under-represented while generalities are over-represented. 

On 06/09/2020 at 8:19 PM, Mosess said:

Are most people self aware? 

 

Relative to their potential and the equilibrium of what we generally believe constitutes self awareness, absolutely not, at least not to a further nuance in the definition I'll now postulate. On the scale of human self awareness, I'd argue that in order to be truly self aware at a bare minimum a person should be able to orient themselves in the world relative to their self perception. Most people do not perceive themselves, they just run on autopilot. So its the utilisation of this metacognitive component in self awareness making self efficacious movements that are self derived that I'd argue is when self awareness starts to enter the picture of an individual. Our self awareness by this measure can of course vary throughout the day then, secondly, this measure of course is much higher than what we'd normally say constitutes self awareness, simply being able to identify yourself in the mirror is where the lowest levels of self awareness lives, albeit self awareness still.. 

 

On 06/09/2020 at 8:19 PM, Mosess said:

And can someone become self aware from engaging with someone else?

Yes, absolutely, but it depends on the self awareness of the person you're engaging with, though it really just depends on the prudence of your awareness in the interaction. If they're less self aware than yourself they can easily make you less self aware depending on how much caution you have with what you say, if they're more self aware and you're aware of this that can also make someone less self aware if they become intimidated, but in both instances regarding examples I'll let you imagine based on the original premise (prudence) someone can become more self aware as well. Other than this simple dynamic, the complementary presence of another human often does increase self awareness for the simple fact that it makes someone more likely to care about them which makes them more reflective of their actions. This kind of hidden sense of responsibility in the interaction leads one to in turn, be more response to their inner actions so they express a higher ability to respond to the outer world.