Metacognition is the first step to waking up out of the dream of - TopicsExpress



          

Metacognition is the first step to waking up out of the dream of thinking. It is the lack of metacognitive activity in the brain/mind that leads one to think I am my job I am my religion I am a so and so. Metacognition is the ability to think about thinking or know about knowing If it is not present you are not able to disentangle from background cultural contexts. Your identity is subsumed into a thought based identity (i.e. My name is Jack the truck driver and that is who and what I am). In essence the formula is I do not fashion meaning; this meaning fashions me. This, working in tandem with social conditioning, is one attribute of what it means to be asleep as opposed to awake
Posted on: Sat, 03 May 2014 04:58:48 +0000

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