Self reflection is a precondition for self awareness, which is a necessary condition for consciousness. A reflexive structure can be simply modeled as an object having a relation to itself. For example the notion of a fixed point is a typical reflexive structure. It is also closely related to recursion.

 $x=f(x)$

The paper on Stepping Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm in Biology^[1], provides some modeling techniques to encode this kind of phenomenon.

An book that directly relates to the notion of self reflection is Richard Dawkins' Selfish Genes^[2].

References

↑ Plamen L. Simeonov; Edwin H. Brezina; Ron Cottam; Andreé C. Ehresmann; Arran Gare; Ted Goranson; Jaime Gomez-Ramirez; Brian D. Josephson; Bruno Marchal; Koichiro Matsuno; Robert S. Root-Bernstein; Otto E. Rössler; Stanley N. Salthe; Marcin Schroeder; Bill Seaman; Pridi Siregar; Leslie S. Smith, eds. (December 9, 2011). "Stepping Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm in Biology" (PDF). local page: INBIOSA.
↑ Book/Selfish Genes

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[1] Plamen L. Simeonov; Edwin H. Brezina; Ron Cottam; Andreé C. Ehresmann; Arran Gare; Ted Goranson; Jaime Gomez-Ramirez; Brian D. Josephson; Bruno Marchal; Koichiro Matsuno; Robert S. Root-Bernstein; Otto E. Rössler; Stanley N. Salthe; Marcin Schroeder; Bill Seaman; Pridi Siregar; Leslie S. Smith, eds. (December 9, 2011). "Stepping Beyond the Newtonian Paradigm in Biology" (PDF). local page: INBIOSA.

[2] Book/Selfish Genes

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