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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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"any system with a sufficiently rich self-model can monitor and control its first-order processes"
Asserted by Predictive-processing functionalists · stance: pro
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