Self-awareness as the term suggests is awareness of yourself - your thoughts and feelings. Of course, no one has this because we lie to ourselves. We pretend that we're nicer than we are. We "feel" guilty as a way of punishing ourselves for an action that we know to be bad so that we can continue doing it without admitting how awful we are.
As
no one does it, there's no part of the brain that is responsible for
it.
Oh
wait. You're not going to like that answer. So, let's approach it
from another direction, shall we?
Your
question is the classic problem of trying to understand function from
the physical form.
Self-awareness,
if it were to exist, would be a function of the brain. To make
matters worse, self-awareness isn't just a function, it's a
metafunction. It is "being aware of being aware" or the
function reflected upon itself. Only really specialised functions
that require specialised forms are located in a single place, like
seeing in the eyes.
You
see, the brain isn't like a machine, it's like an army. With a
machine, a part has a specific function and if the part breaks. the
machine loses that function. With an army, a soldier is given a
specific task like communications. However, if that soldier is unable
to perform that function, the task is simply re-assigned to another
soldier.
That's
why stuff like this happens:
http://www.livescience.com/22614-self-awareness-brain.html
The
idea that each area of the brain has a specific function is so 19th
Century. Yet every time there's another piece of evidence that shows
that this idea is wrong, it's a major revelation - and then it's
quickly forgotten so as not to disturb the status quo. Then we wonder
why we have trouble developing AI.
http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/encyclopedia/en/article/109/
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