We don't equate self awareness with consciousness.
Dogs are conscious, but still bark at themselves in a mirror.
Then there is the third axis, intelligence. To continue your chain:
Eurasian magpies are conscious, but also know themselves in the mirror (the "mirror self-recognition" test).
But yet, something is still missing.
What's missing?
The mirror test doesn’t measure intelligence so much as it measures mirror aptitude. It’s prone to over fitting.
Then there is the third axis, intelligence. To continue your chain:
Eurasian magpies are conscious, but also know themselves in the mirror (the "mirror self-recognition" test).
But yet, something is still missing.
What's missing?
The mirror test doesn’t measure intelligence so much as it measures mirror aptitude. It’s prone to over fitting.