The mind's ability to attend to its own representing activity is a distinct ability, logically presupposed as a condition of experience. (We couldn't be representing objects unless, in all cases of such representing, we could also become conscious of our representing.)... All consciousness... is a species of self-consciousness, representing objects is at the same time attending to the mind's activities.

p. 20 - Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness (1989)