If I understood you correctly, you are asserting that the LLMs entirely lack the "self-awareness" or "critical thinking" part while human simply doesn't use it

If I understood you correctly, you are asserting that the LLMs entirely lack the "self-awareness" or "critical thinking" part while human simply doesn't use it enough but we are all born with it and always have that ability as a built-in feature, inherent to our beings? If so, then you are right on the machine's part. The current LLMs can't change its own weights thus in a sense, incapable of questioning its own existence. It can't perform a highly philosophical debate with its own "self" and reform its mind as a result of that action. What I am still arguing is many human can't do that either. Such thing, in my experience, is actually not that common in the general populace. And while you can say it is there, just "unexercised", that would be functionally identical to it not existing and you can't absolutely prove that "it is still there" in all human. >In engineering, I hope not Perhaps in your particular type of engineering. In civil engineering, material degradation is undesirable and normal. In chemical engineering, side reactions are undesirable and normal. In biomedical engineering, well there are too many to list, from undesirable epigenetic changes to patients' unhealthy lifestyles. Things can definitely be undesirable but normal.