But I suspect you mean something that I think is critical - the ability to watch itself think. That's pretty close to the way the term is normally used. FWIW:

But I suspect you mean something that I think is critical - the ability to watch itself think. That's pretty close to the way the term is normally used. FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-consciousness/#Meta https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-consciousness/#Meta