I agree with your insinuation that there is utility in having a language for describing the brain processes or their functions in humans that is different from

I agree with your insinuation that there is utility in having a language for describing the brain processes or their functions in humans that is different from the other living beings. One way that I like to think about it is that there's a spectrum of "sophistication". Even within the human population, there's gradation: not everyone is great at critical thinking, forecasting, imagining, reasoning, meta cognition, etc. When I look to the stars, I wonder what levels exist above the human mind. Looking "downward", are there "thinking processes" that we could assimilate through technology into our own minds?