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The Metacognition Project: October 2012
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Visit the companion blog, Keye Commentary. Devoted to more general topics. Saturday, October 27, 2012. Teaching and Learning Math. Written in the 1990s when I was substitute teaching in the math dept. in high school.). It is generally recognized that teaching and learning mathematics has special problems. Many children seem to learn math only with difficulty. Many teachers of math seem unable to teach the subject beyond the sort of rote process by which they acquired their knowledge of it. All this sugge...
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The Metacognition Project: December 2014
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Visit the companion blog, Keye Commentary. Devoted to more general topics. Monday, December 8, 2014. Goals and Problems, part two. This essay will make more sense if you look at ‘part one’ first. The species of great ape to which I belong is characterized by an adaptation unique in biological history: it stores and sorts information gathered from the senses in such a way that the information can be constructed into a “reality” separated from the biophysical Reality in which it originated. First and most ...
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The Metacognition Project: February 2013
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Visit the companion blog, Keye Commentary. Devoted to more general topics. Monday, February 4, 2013. The Never-never Land of Narrative. Before the genus Homo there were no stories. The world does not operate by narrative, but humans do. Therein lies the essence of a conflict (an element of narrative! That is poised to manifest as an event of geologic importance. Humans have made these changes into a story. But there is no story, no narrative operating the earth. The beauty of this form of limited narrati...
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The Metacognition Project: February 2014
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Visit the companion blog, Keye Commentary. Devoted to more general topics. Saturday, February 15, 2014. Freewill is an Adaptation. The essential objection to the existence of freewill is the same as the objection to any seemingly non-material “entity” for which no basis in known matter/energy relations can be found or convincingly surmised. Variability in human behavior, without regard to its origin, is the source of our success on the earth. It is the fixed behaviors of rabbits that limit their populati...
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The Metacognition Project: November 2014
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Visit the companion blog, Keye Commentary. Devoted to more general topics. Saturday, November 8, 2014. Goals and Problems, part one. The solution to any problem is primarily made up of two parts: the desired outcome and the options of performance; psycho-bio-physically unattainable goals (or undefined goals) and unperformable actions (or performable actions that are unrelated to the issues) only amplify difficulties. But, before getting into the human domain of problems, there is context. But, the “...
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The Metacognition Project: July 2012
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Visit the companion blog, Keye Commentary. Devoted to more general topics. Sunday, July 29, 2012. The Story: The Pen and the Sword. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Banner image created by Jaco Finch. Metacognition: “awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.”. I am only somewhat offended by the term metacognition – it is phony sounding, like a magician’s trick – but it is what is needed, more than anything else. We can think without thinking about it; in fact, we usually do. This is in part ...
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The Metacognition Project: Goals and Problems, part two
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Visit the companion blog, Keye Commentary. Devoted to more general topics. Monday, December 8, 2014. Goals and Problems, part two. This essay will make more sense if you look at ‘part one’ first. The species of great ape to which I belong is characterized by an adaptation unique in biological history: it stores and sorts information gathered from the senses in such a way that the information can be constructed into a “reality” separated from the biophysical Reality in which it originated. First and most ...
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The Metacognition Project: August 2012
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Visit the companion blog, Keye Commentary. Devoted to more general topics. Friday, August 24, 2012. How Do Things Happen When There Is No Agency? Human consciousness systems for modeling the world are completely dependent on the idea of agency; that some agent wills or otherwise directs events. And since agency as we conceive it is completely illusory, we are doomed to be ‘wrong’ (also an agency dependent idea! In the vast majority of our actions in the world. The capacity of the CSO to generate actions ...
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The Metacognition Project: September 2012
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Visit the companion blog, Keye Commentary. Devoted to more general topics. Saturday, September 8, 2012. The Nature of Impunity. Humans are subject to a variety of powerful motivators, as are all animals. We are familiar with the list: hunger, sex, safety, various social motives and so on. But we are the only animal that is also routinely moved by motivations that are purely the product of our imagination. Of these, one of the most insidious is the desire for impunity of action. A primary issue for our &#...
