One may make a unique observation or suggest a creative idea, and only those who do the same know right then that it was contrived. It wasn’t necessarily contrived in the sense that they are not unique or creative, but contrived in an attempt to prove that they, in fact, are unique and creative.

A lilac trying to be conscious of its own lilac scent in order to know that it is a lilac.

A dog barking to assure itself that it is a dog.

It doesn’t make them any less of a flower or an animal that they occasionally check in, just to make sure they are the same thing that they were the last time they looked inward.