Their introspectiveness doesn't strike me as indicative of anything, since we might be just reinforcing a "plausible word salad generator for input context that

Their introspectiveness doesn't strike me as indicative of anything, since we might be just reinforcing a "plausible word salad generator for input context that leads to better solutions" or just a "post hoc rationalizer", both of which may or may not be the key mechanism behind verbal consciousness.