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Metacognition seems like a technical term which isn’t defined. This is just dozens of bullet points. Is it when you have a thought about a thought? Seems too pedestrian for that.
Don't think it's deeper than that, it does just mean thinking about thinking. Which is exactly what the author is doing in this post.
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Thank you for the Wikipedia link.
To be honest, why don’t you look up terms you’re unfamiliar with yourself first before asking such a question? It doesn’t take more than 10-20 seconds.
“Meta” is such a signal for armchair pseudo-technicality in the blogosphere. So no, I won’t just read Wikipedia because I don’t trust that some random, unprompted bullet list will adhere to standard references; they could just as well be referring to whatever term they invented on their blog about 200 blog entries ago.
What makes matters worse is that the apparent meaning here is “thoughts about thoughts”. Which is useless considering that thoughts often follow each other in a train of associations (train of thought). So what then distinguishes thoughts from metathoughts? They’re all associated with other thoughts.
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To be honest, why don’t you look up terms you’re unfamiliar with yourself first before asking such a question? It doesn’t take more than 10-20 seconds.
Yes, I was sarcastically thanking you for linking to Wikipedia, a practice that people do out of spite and condescension. “Meta” is such a signal for armchair pseudo-technicality in the blogosphere. So no, I won’t just read Wikipedia because I don’t trust that some random, unprompted bullet list will adhere to standard references; they could just as well be referring to whatever term they invented on their blog about…
Metacognition doesn’t just mean thoughts about thoughts, it means perception of and thinking about the process of your own thinking, about its mechanisms. It’s recognizing and reflecting about how your mind works.
It seems to me the author of the article is using “metacognition” in the normal meaning, so I’m not sure what the problem is.