Once you start considering it just metacognition, it gets to be a much more useful concept, but most people seem to desperately want it to be "special". Ask an

Once you start considering it just metacognition, it gets to be a much more useful concept, but most people seem to desperately want it to be "special". Ask any therapist, consciousness has limits, it has bound depth. It takes a lot of work to re-train it. It isn't a magical human only special thing.