The Philosophy of Metacognition: Mental Agency and Self-Awareness

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A free energy principle for a particular physics (2019, background): “ afforded by sensory samples in the future; i.e., the reduction of uncertainty anticipated under a particular course of action. This is sometimes called epistemic affordance (Calvo and Friston, 2017; Proust, 2015). This follows, almost tautologically, from the definition of the sorts of particles we”
The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns (2020, background): “At the third, metaconscious level, the person deliberately and consciously takes charge of their cognitive functioning (Damasio, 1999; Pinard, 1992; Proust, 2013; Winkielman & Schooler, 2011)— i.e., one becomes aware of the content of one’s conscious processes in ways that become increasingly…”