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metacognition requires consciousness is a philosophical question1.

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metacognition requires consciousness is a philosophical question

The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
“Whether metacognition requires consciousness is the philosophical hinge.”
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"metacognition just is the higher-order representation that makes a state conscious"
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