Besides the presence of storytelling and the mirror test, how else could

autonoetic consciousness be detected?

The notions of "noetic" and "autonoetic" were first introduced by Endel Tulving in 1983. He described
noetic consciousness as a familiarity, or a knowing of some event or notion, but without any selfrecollection, while the autonoetic consciousness was represented by the remembrance of something
that an individual already experienced.
However, couldn't autonoetic consciousness also include certain actions or decisions that an individual
wish they would have taken, whether instead of something else that they had done or decided, or just
as a first time experience? In other words, this notion could also be simply called "regret", whi ch is
something that all humans, more or less, have experienced at some point during their lifetime. I think
that regretting something can be considered a manifestation of autonoetic consciousness because we
project ourselves in the situation that we have already been part of, or wish we had been part of, while
visualizing our preferred outcome at the same time. It can be also considered autonoetic if we learn
from our past mistakes and purposely avoid doing something in the future.
Nevertheless, one could argue that if we didn't go through a certain experience, but only imagined it
and its outcomes, it wouldn't represent a manifestation of autonoetic consciousness, but of the noetic
one. This might be done especially through evaluating possible outcomes through others' experiences in
a similar situation. So for example, if I regret not talking to a boy I liked at some point, but imagined
possible outcomes of the situation if I did based on my friends personal experiences, this would
technically be noetic consciousness. But in the end, however sure we might be of a certain event in the
past, our minds often play tricks on us. How sure we are we actually lived something? We could never
know.

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