The Uncanny Valley describes the eery feeling when I look at a shambling mound of individual cells that have lumped together into a humanoid form and execute a crude cellular automaton on dedicated chemo electrical cells that animate it and pretend to itself that it's conscious
This is just the mind. You can make models of external (and also internal) world without being conscious of that. Consciousness is an integrated reflexive model of what the mind attended to. Attention is separate from modeling itself.
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Yes, attention and "self-consciousness" are higher levels of consciousness than the 1D model of reality that simple sensory things have. Humans have 3-4 dimensions of modeling ability, from what I can tell. (Giving us 4D space-time awareness.)
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In our mind, space and time are represented as independent dimensions: you cannot mentally rotate between space and time. However, we can probably go to ~4D in general, without nesting.
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