Sorry for this slightly dizzying stream…
It is not important for awakeness whether it notices itself or not. That too happens as content of awakeness, and is no other than awakeness itself.
Getting caught up in the content of awakeness, being identified with it, or noticing all of it as awakeness itself, it is all happening within, to and as awakeness.
But it is, sometimes, important for who we take ourselves to be. When there is identification with content of awakeness, it can, in some situations, seem important. There is a feeling, a thought, of wanting awakeness to notice itself, or at least a curiosity about it, and this too happens within, to and as awakeness.
It is awakeness as confusion, desire, discomfort, blind to itself, noticing itself, releasing identification out of its own content, recognizing its own content as itself. It is all awakeness, and is never anything else than awakeness.
So what is the big deal? There isn’t really.
Only the draw for awakeness to notice itself, sometimes, when it is temporarily identified with its own content.
And the compassion that naturally arises when it is noticing itself, and also sees itself suffer over there, through identification with other living beings.
When awakeness is awake to itself and functions through this human self, and sees itself over there identified with its own content, with another living being, and experiencing discomfort because of it, there is naturally compassion and actions out of kindness and whatever wisdom is available.
There is naturally actions to help alleviate the suffering, in whatever ways the other asks for and is receptive to. In conventional and temporary ways, and sometimes also in helping awakeness notice itself also over there, through the other human self.