you sure must be the life of the party when not needed
but let me tell you this, I've studyed filosophy back in school, this was my first encounter with this branch as well, it opened up a mass of posibilities/trajectory for certain life impacts as I'd never thought of — this was remember, back when I was very much little, now to tell you the this... I also happen to study these among basic born/death dates of philosophers and just a few of their profile's work... that we also got to this axis and basically animals have their "I" as well but is more senzorial and not as 1% developed as ours is/was..
so if a dog would sit in the bare sun he'd be like "Ok, I feel this heat, this is happening to me now, but if I leave this spot I'll never know where I was, even if by my wet nose I can recognize this very pitch black zone". So they aren't aware of what their doing, is mostly basic primal instincts that acts as a again and for the last time, indirect conciousness
In more simpler words, they know their there but they do not know that they exist, is more of a constant presence that again, I'll never be at the same level of conciousness...
off-topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
interesting read