I guess for now we can't know - but were they truly modern humans? They might have had the same hardware but the cultural/consciousness software may have been f

I guess for now we can't know - but were they truly modern humans? They might have had the same hardware but the cultural/consciousness software may have been far different than what we have today. It's fun to think about, books like The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind or the Sapiens both explore some version of this.