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I'm not at all sure about this part - although I don't think it matters much to your overall case. I think one of our senses is a very much simplified representation of our own internal thought state. It's only just about good enough for us to make a chain of thought - taking the substance of a finished thought and using it as input to the next thought. In animals, I suspect this sense isn't good enough to allow thought chains to be made - and so they can't make arguments. In humans it is good enough, but probably not by very much - it seems rather likely that the ability to make thought chains evolved quite recently.
I think we probably make mistakes about what we think we think all the time - but there is usually nobody who can correct us.