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Totally agree, and its gradually growing from a animalistic fixated on the now state to full self-awareness. It can temporarliy collapse when fight and flight reflexes override the expensive reflection. It can permanently be lowered if a mental sickness (or a neuro-diverse adaption to more warlike states of humanity) gets triggered by stressfull circumstances.

And there is also a zoo of complexity when it comes to "sentience", meaning there are those who are "great thinkers in the subconcious" and can not explain there thought process. There are levels of sentience and almost automated task, were the subconcious kicks in and the sentient human just "dissolves" for a moment, like driving home in a car. Its a fascinating topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) Obligatory Watts Reference, cause his book really does have a interesting look on the zoo of humanity.