Sciences of the Mind

The mind which does not have a place to turn or any stable base will undergo change from hour to hour and from minute to minute due to the variety of its distractions. ... By the things that come to it from outside it will be continually transformed.

The mind within the senses does not dwell, It has no place in outer things, like form, And in between, the mind does not abide;
Not out, not in, not elsewhere can the mind be found.
Something not within the body, and yet nowhere else, That does not merge with it nor stand apart—
Something such as this does not exist, not even slightly. Beings have nirvana in their nature.

Some form of self-awareness is surely essential to highly intelligent thought... On the other hand, I doubt that any part of a mind can see very deeply into other parts; it can only use models it constructs of them.