Thank you for the generous and kind response.

Part of me wonders if, like alexithymia[1], aphantasia, anauralia[2] and anendophasia[3], there exists the inability to recognize one's own conscious experience. We would never know.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia

2. https://www.anauralia.com/anauralia

3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38728320/