The basic gist of it seems to be that we don’t have, and ought not expect evolved systems like ourselves to have, the cognitive capability to understand our cognitive limitations, at least not without information about the causes of those limitations that comes from something other than “metacognition”.
I’m not sure what Bakker means by “metacognition”; if he means this I’m pretty confident he’s just wrong.
This looks like it might mean something. Can anyone dumb it down to the point where I can understand it?
The basic gist of it seems to be that we don’t have, and ought not expect evolved systems like ourselves to have, the cognitive capability to understand our cognitive limitations, at least not without information about the causes of those limitations that comes from something other than “metacognition”.
I’m not sure what Bakker means by “metacognition”; if he means this I’m pretty confident he’s just wrong.