Excellent points. One could expand on the theme of variations in human cognition almost infinitely. There have to be books written about it? If not...wow huge opportunity for someone.

As a mediator and a teacher of meditation and other such practices, I have seen that most people have no cognition that they have a mind...they perceive themselves as their mind activity. A highly trained mind has a very clear cognitive perception of a mind which experiences activity of mind and can actually be turned off from producing such activity. The overwhelming majority of people self-identify with the contents of the mind. This is just one of the many cognitive variations that one could go on about.

Truly, the discussion about AI and its states and performance is shockingly thin and shallow, even among those involved in its creation. Some of Stephen Wolfram's comments recently have been surprisingly short sighted in this regard. Brilliant in so many ways, but blinded by bias in this regard.