A dog or a cat or any other hunting animal, and perhaps even a spider, makes updating predictive maps of the world which incorporate themselves, their own position, movements, salience, revealed intentions etc., and so all the elements that go into self-awareness. Of course we credit at least the vertebrates with consciousness, interpret their behaviour intentionally etc., but not always with self-awareness. What is the difference? Less freely hypothetical perhaps, or not as creative with errors, fantasy, the intentionally irrelevant. But you also see dogs and cats as peaking into self-awareness at certain moments, but not sustaining it. and so it is with you too, peaking briefly into self-remembering and then falling back into complacent animal faith - 'scepticism' and animal faith - suspended between the two.