Chinese workers are reportedly being outfitted with brain-reading sensors designed to monitor their emotional state. According to the South China Morning Post, Hangzhou Zhongheng Electric, which develops and supplies electrical products, is one of several companies deploying the technology. “Concealed in regular safety helmets or uniform hats, these lightweight, wireless sensors constantly monitor... 

Self-awareness is the capacity to pay conscious attention to all aspects of yourself: to use sensory capacities such as sight, hearing and touch to provide accurate information about the external world; to use feelings such as thirst, hunger, nausea, dizziness and physical pain to provide accurate information about the state of your body and what it needs; to use memory to store and provide access...