Intranet of Things

And then it occurs to me that  artificial intelligence has two components; the brain and the body.

Most of what I have read on the subject discusses the neural complexity required to be intelligent and then, at another level, self aware.

But I am thinking that the body is one big sensor, equivalent to billions of discrete sensors.

The whole global internet of things probably has substantially less sensors attached to it than my little finger.

What I am saying is that self awareness might be a natural outcome of processing and parsing all that sensory input.