Can You Have Consciousness?

The relationship of the self to consciousness. Can you have consciousness? See, i think my dog is conscious, but i'm not sure it has the same kind of self as me. And i think that is one of the aspects of how we can break down consciousness. In fact, the neare scientist, antonio de masio, does precisely that. So he suggests that there are two types of consciousness: what e calls qor cncious and autobiographical Consciousness. But in his view, the notion of aself does seem to be bound up with things that, as far as we know so far, are uniquely human. He says if other animals don't have languages