Consider the mental life of a dog, for example.
Presumably, dogs have a rich array of experiences (they
feel pain and pleasure, the tree has a particular
"look" to it) and they may even have beliefs about the
world (Fido believes that his supper dish is empty).
Who knows, they may even have special "inner
experiences" that accompany those beliefs. However, if
we assume that dogs are not self-aware in the stronger
sense, then they will lack the ability to critically
reflect upon their beliefs and experiences and thus
will be unable to have other beliefs about their
pleasure or their supper-dish-belief (what philosophers
call "second-order beliefs" or "meta-beliefs"). That is
to say, they may lack the ability to judge that
pleasure may be an unworthy objective in a certain
situation or to judge that their belief that the supper
dish is empty is unjustified.

http://www.ptproject.ilstu.edu/sfaw1.htm


****wit, you are clueless. You will NEVER understand
self-awareness, and why no scientist believes dogs
possess it. Instead, you'll keep blabbering stupidly
about "imo".