Yeah but being consciously aware of an apple does not need any awareness or idea of a self to make it possible.
Very young kids experience consciously whatever they sense well before their cortex pops out with the idea that the sensed stuff can be categorized into several different “things”
PS to be more specific - an image classifier is trained to recognize cats, dogs, humans and zebras. So in a sens it gets a relatively good sense of (images of) these categories. But if you show it a representation of itself it won’t recognize it and is no need to recognize itself in order to be able to recognize cats and zebras.
So the kid first becomes aware of some hands (her own) waving around, smiling faces, milky tits, plushy blankets, etc. before ever comes with the brilliant idea “wait… i think some stuff happens ‘in here’ and other ‘out there’”