{"id":18635,"date":"2023-01-25T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T09:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stag-party.expresspage.net\/?p=18635"},"modified":"2023-01-25T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T09:12:07","slug":"metacognition-in-the-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expresspage.net\/metacognition-in-the-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"Metacognition in the Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Metacognition in the rat (n.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n
A brown rat’s ( Rattus norvegicus<\/em>) awareness of it’s own psychological contents and capability to act upon that awareness.<\/li>\n
A rationalist’s ( Homo really sapiens<\/em>) awareness of the meta level and unquenchable desire to consider it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
An essential ability that rationalists cultivate is making choices under unpredictability. To do that, one should have the ability to evaluate their own unpredictability. And according to Stanislas Dehaene’s Awareness and the Brain<\/em>, assessing your own unpredictability is among the particular psychological operations that needs mindful gain access to<\/strong> <\/p>\n
We can understand<\/em> things that we aren’t mindful of, like thinking much better than opportunity whether a digit flashed on the screen too quickly to go into awareness is above 5 or below. However we do not understand what<\/em> we understand and how specific <\/em> we are. In the flashing digit example, we can’t approximate on which trials we are likelier to have actually thought properly if the stimulus didn’t reach awareness.<\/p>\n
This is from a visitor evaluation of Awareness and the Brain<\/em> on ACX. According to that evaluation, the capability to evaluate one’s self-confidence is not special to human beings however is obviously likewise present in rats! Does this mean that rodents are mindful and knowledgeable about their own thinking? Or will it end up that the term paper the evaluation links to is an amusing mess from which it’s difficult to draw any conclusions? <\/p>\n
In either case, I was captivated enough to review Metacognition in the Rat<\/em> ( 2007 )<\/em><\/strong> <\/em> by Allison Foote and Jonathon Crystal. The charts and quotes listed below are from that paper unless discussed otherwise.<\/p>\n