I can say that self-awareness, and especially self-understanding, in my mind, had nothing to do with knowing how others see you. I'd hate to based the defition of the self on common, outside perception. I think that knowing one's own value system, both factual and sentimental, is the closest thing to self-understanding. That clearly puts Fi and Ti over Fe and Te.
clearly Fi over Fe...by your definition. you're right, we have to define self-awareness. (you are taking a very Fi perspective...)
Ti would NOT be as good as Fi at knowing your own value system -- Ti comes with Fe, which focuses on external values.
i would guess that TPs and FJs would define self awareness in my way, TJs and FPs your way. (hint, hint)
Perception will be necessary to gather information about the self, of course. I suppose Ni is being picked because we can assume that Intuition is more self-originated than Si? Either way, Perception alone wouldn't be good enough of course, as only the Judgement actually makes sense of the information. Only the Judgement actually creates something comprehensive from the information. So, maybe that makes Pi and Ji even in this comparison, because Perception will never really create the understanding, but it is pre-requisite for the Judging to take place at all.
The conclusion I gather here, though, is that the most self-aware type is one that doesn't exist according to the MBTI. It's something to the effect of NiFi.
heh, NiFi is INTJ, though. funny
that's a weird conclusion, though...the most self aware type isn't an MBTI type? why not compare the actual MBTI types to each other?
i'll stick to INFP as the most self aware type. (a compliment?)