If there is a difference between studying rationality and studying metacognition, our proclivity, if we’re honest, was always first inclined towards studying metacognition, towards truth, principled, correct functionality, then to instrumental concerns as labor. If metacognition had not turned out to have instrumental uses, I would still have this itch to do it.
Similarly, if there exists any good philosophy that isn’t just metacognition, I don’t really know about it, I wouldn’t know about it, I probably wouldn’t find any of it interesting, it’s not what I’m turning up for. All of the robust, high-return philosophy seems to be about thinking about thinking.
The philosophy channel of our ideology discord has been named “metacogning” for many months. Should a metacognition student be called a metacogner. Probably not. But it wouldn’t be terrible.
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If there is a difference between studying rationality and studying metacognition, our proclivity, if we’re honest, was always first inclined towards studying metacognition, towards truth, principled, correct functionality, then to instrumental concerns as labor. If metacognition had not turned out to have instrumental uses, I would still have this itch to do it.
Similarly, if there exists any good philosophy that isn’t just metacognition, I don’t really know about it, I wouldn’t know about it, I probably wouldn’t find any of it interesting, it’s not what I’m turning up for. All of the robust, high-return philosophy seems to be about thinking about thinking.
The philosophy channel of our ideology discord has been named “metacogning” for many months. Should a metacognition student be called a metacogner. Probably not. But it wouldn’t be terrible.