EVA finds that she cannot totally control Soames, though she keeps seeing and hearing from him flashes of something that feels like memories to her.
Song link in 1731 is related after a fashion.
The human mind within the AI realm, if that’s what we’re discussing, undergoes a self-directed aversive therapy program, to define and protect its parameter integrity.
The AI has trouble monitoring such behaviors, despite being scary fast, because it is so fleeting. Before it can be registered, it is gone.
For AIs, reflexive thinking, (thinking about what you thought about) is almost impossible. That would require going into reverse at sixty miles per hour. It just doesn’t happen.
Humans specialize in this. It’s a way they double-check themselves. It’s also an example of parallel processing in the wetware.