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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Is there anything written about when humans became self aware?
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Julian Jaynes's *The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind* is a controversial classic in this field. It is sometimes called brilliant, sometimes nonsense. 

The issue of the origins of human self awareness is also at the heart of a lot of Enlightenment thinkers. It's worth reading Vico's *The New Science* for its bizarre but fascinating story of how people became aware. Condillac takes it up, and so does Herder in his book on the origin of language.