#metacognition

[triflesandparsnips]

Okay, so we started with this first question, and the results are now in:

So now it's time for the next question:

[blue-metal-tektite]

New paint job

[autogaiagraphy]

Because she deserves it.

[rococo-poco]

TRIPLE CLOTHS and a poem about itself

[preservationofnormalcy]

For Jenny:

Personal question regarding Things Beyond Mortal Ken

Are you naturally immune, is there a device, or are you trained to not lose sanity when you see them?

Curious because I imagine you're required to interact with them regularly and I'm looking to apply to a local intern position for something similar, but I know I don't have a natural immunity and don't want to be disqualified for it. I had to have a lot of therapy for accidental exposure as a kid.

I'm not naturally immune to most anomalous influences; I tend to be able to ignore auras that cause fear or the feeling of being hunted, but I'm otherwise just as vulnerable to parasensory attack as your average human.

Standard practice for OPN employees is to receive regular metacognitive checks and a basic suite of inoculations against known hazardous thoughtforms, so I don't think not having a natural immunity would be an immediate disqualification.

I don't really interact with anomalous influences as much as you think! I'm just a social media intern, after all, and the office computers have scramblers that stop common cognitive attacks; it's why when a fae comes into the ask box asking for Norm's name, for example, the question doesn't have a geas on it.

[errantabbot]

On Metacognition, Samadhi, Sadhana and the Places In Between:

The psychologization of the dharma in the west has not been an entirely negative movement. In many ways the marriage of psychology and mindfulness has been a fruitful one that has made Buddhist principles more accessible to the masses. Certainly the ongoing dialogue between observational science and Buddhist spiritual practice has helped to both verify and refine the transmission and translation of various doctrines and practices into a culturally accessible format.

However, this hasn’t been a movement without shadow. The conflation of the dharma with mindfulness alone, as the crown jewel of the psychological reductionist perspective has been a hindering force for many practitioners, who often come to conflate awakening with metacognitive awareness. That’s a grave mistake.

The dawning of metacognition is a substantial doorway, but a doorway nonetheless. It’s not the path made manifest. Likewise practice cannot be reduced to metacognition. Metacognition is a relatively early consequence of meditative practice, but it’s not samadhi, and it’s certainly not prajna.

Samadhi is often misunderstood as some kind of blank absorption into mindless being. This is a substantial pitfall, a trapping of the mind that the ego is all too happy to allow the practitioner to become infatuated with. Hanging out in “nothingness” after all is a safe space for the ego, wherein subject-object dualism can be safely maintained. After all, samadhi as it is most frequently reported is a state of “I” slipping away for a time, after which it can emerge from its bath in nothingness fully aware of its journeying, and often proud of it to boot.

True samadhi on the other hand, true meditative absorption into the heart of reality, is a manifestation of nondualism. It is the realization and effortless expression of subject-object sameness, and embodying of the true-self, which is limitless in time and space, while somehow yet identifiable through the singular body of one’s birth (after all, form IS emptiness and emptiness IS form). It is from this samadhic state that prajna, or the spontaneous expression of wisdom before thinking, can appear.

Zen Master Seung Sahn often noted that practitioners must find “correct situation, correct relationship, and correct function.” Situation, relationship, and function in spontaneous harmony and accord is, in effect, prajna arising from samadhi.

In this it may he further understood that samadhi is not a drop into some well of neutral blankness, but a conscious swim in-and-as the dynamic tension that may be interpreted through such terms as rupa and sunyata, purusha and prakriti, yin and yang, waves and particles, etc.

It is not with any degree of levity that Zen prescribes the essentials of great faith, great doubt, and great determination. We must have some degree of considerable degree of faith that our practice can yield resolution to the matter of life and death. We must uphold a continual resolve to push beyond the limits of what we hope to be the end of the path and into the real, doubting that the full picture has ever quite entered our conscious regard. And too, we must devote ourselves to persistence in this faith and doubt, understanding sadhana (shugyo) as the only path to true liberation and awakening.

~Sunyananda

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

I was thinking this morning about how to explain the difference between the Mind and the Soul. In my way of thinking, they are entirely separate concepts. But I am struggling to define "soul" in a way that is distinct from "super ego" or "subconscious." And these are, of course, part of the Mind, and this upsets me in a way I can't quite articulate.

[deepestanchoralpaca]

Metacognitive Awareness Study

Hello everyone, I'm seeking research participants for my counseling psychology dissertation project.

This research was inspired by prior research which suggests autistic cognition, is biased in general towards local or detail focused style over a global or gestalt.

This led to thinking about how people use compensation strategies to overcome challenging situations which in part can contribute to late identification/diagnosis and also masking which has a poor impact on autistic people's mental health.

If anyone is interested in participating it is open to all, non-autistic, autistic and self-identifying people.

Requires: ~ 30 minutes – Must be over 18 years old – Demographics and Screening Survey – Facial emotions and eye color task – Metacognition questionnaire – Won't work on most mobile devices

– Not paid – Sorry!

Thanks for reading.

Direct link:

[art-of-mathematics]

Sometimes/often I just want to be an ordinary man with ordinary interests, ordinary expectations from life and ordinary wishes and here I am: autistic and conscious of all my lack of basic life skills.

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Currently lt's disabling. My focus is non-existent. My clumsyness is so severe that I even refuse to leave the bed, not due to being depressed, but because I have no "brain capacity" to determine my moves properly without causing chain reactions of incidences. It is no exaggeration, but whenever I attempt to solve a problem (like a glass of water fell down..) I cause even more shitty incidences. It's the quanity and frequentation of those incidences that is disabling.

My sensory problems are severe as well. Both sensory processing is deficitary as well as the "output" via motoric control of my body.

Whenever I fail 90% in what I do, I always remember all the shitty degrading comments I received.

I had a bit of self esteem, but thanks to severely desinterested psych workers I have lost my self esteem entirely.

Everyday I hear these comments in my mind and I have nothing to hold against it. I have no counter-example. I have so few experiences where I could achieve something, where my kind of thinking was even wanted.

Constantly being deemed as dumb and whatever is painful when you know you can be smart - with a bit of self esteem and trust in yourself, with just few affirmative words - and an option to advance your knowledge and skills.

Having no options to use my knowledge and skills - and especially not being able to improve and work on them makes me sad. Additionally, working on expanding/improving my knowledge and skills could help me with my self-esteem.

It's saddening.

In the last months I could not train my mind enough to remain functional.

I need daily mental workout to remain a basic level of functionality of basic cognitive abilities. It's like a person with muscular dystrophy - they have to train hard everyday just to remain at a basic functionality.

My verbal and communication skills severely decreased over the last months. Whenever I attempt to write something - may it be poetry, philosophy or about STEM topics it turns into utter gibberish shortly after I started writing.

Even basic grammar becomes deficitary. Word finding problems are severe too.

My brain is super slow. Processing information is filled with more errors than i am able to detect and correct via metacognition. Even basic perception is exhausting because of this. In moments of severe exhaustion my vision becomes double (double pictures) and if I continue the exhausting task (mostly tasks that require much working memory capacity) I become delirious and then fall asleep while doing the task... mental overload... mental shutdown. Mental CPU used by 100%.

The dissociation aspect in my cognitive processes makes it all too difficult, as, well, my memory is like a server having multiple co-existing sub-systems - each of them is also errorous. And sending information between the servers, as to use this analogy, is a very "mental-CPU-exhausting task"...

.... hmmm I might want to write an article about cognitive processes in general - and how it is with my own sensory as well as memory processing. Some weeks ago I started doing short explanations of analogies between cognitive processes and "computer and math terms".

I also want to use pseudocode to depict some "working mechanisms" of my cognition, so to speak.

(I made these many months ago:)

I might go into detail when I actually continue this project.

[weaktremblingfortress]

ok i still remember a deleted video called "inanimate raps" (a terrible epic rap battles of history clone w object show characters) and im gonna write the lyrics right here in the interest of glorious MEDIA PRESERVATION!!! :D

INANIMATE RAPS! WOODY! VS! PENCIL! BEGIN!

pencil: oh look it's the scaredy cat and my raps are all that there's no way you can win, you pantophobe so go back to being eliminated early on the bfdi show

me the pencil versus balsa, it's obvious who will be the winner the pencil! you'll never beat me, you pantophobe gotta keep on mentioning it, my raps will be over the globe

woody: i am made of balsa but my raps ain't sensitive your raps are not even raps i'm making this short pence-pence, you cannot even win against me considering you're hated by english cream!

stop calling yourself a pantophobe, not good for self-esteem once again you are hated by english cream! so long to you and your match friend too!!!

WHO WON? WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE!!!

[triflesandparsnips]

So! We started with Question 1, regarding whether the respondents could "hear" a mental voice:

We now have the results of Question 2, where I asked those who responded 'yes' -- or whoever would've said 'yes' if they'd seen the poll in time -- this follow-up question:

What's fascinating about the above results is that the mobile app doesn't show decimals, but the desktop app does-- so, more precisely, the results look like this:

No particular location = 27.6% Near the front = 27.6% Near the back = 7% To the left/right = 3.9% Near the base = 2.8% Absolute center = 22.2% I don't understand = 3.7% Other/Clicky = 5.2%

There were locations given in the tags, replies, and reblogs that I had either forgotten to include or hadn't considered, including:

Near the top of the head;

Near/next to/inside/through/between ears;

Near/inside mouth;

Behind eyes;

Behind nose or inside sinuses;

Near/above/down throat (nasal cavities specifically mentioned more than once); and

Outside the body entirely (in front of body, perched above/on/around/behind head, disconnected entirely).

It should be noted that the majority of these had more than one respondent describe it as such.

Other responses not listed in the poll but clarified in tags or replies were:

not one but multiple mental voices that would either switch out in the same location, or "lived" in different locations (some of these respondents identified as having DID, but not all; some described different voices for different "uses", such as reading versus mental narration versus music-loops, etc.);

mental voices that had spatial locations but no fixed point (that is, would apparently move at random); and

mental voices that had spatial locations that could be chosen at will by the respondent.

...And it's that last group of people who managed to anticipate question 3, which is getting close to the actual thing I want to ask everybody...

Feel free to answer even if you didn't fill in the previous poll. If you already know that it'd hurt you to try (that is, option 5) -- or are concerned it might -- don't fuckin' do it omg, these questions are not IRB approved, no tumblr poll is worth a migraine.

[wildcat2030]

In a very real sense humanity is currently undergoing a shift. Whether we call it a paradigmatic shift, or an inflection point in the evolution of the species is less important. What is of significance is the observation that our civilization is in the process of change. A transformation is currently in progress.

We are currently riding a meta wave of change.

Our age-old ideas of pointing to ourselves as the central matrix of sapiency, sentiency, intelligence, and sense making is being fundamentally questioned and, I believe, altered.

Doubts about our uniqueness, about the centrality of our conscious awareness, and crucially about our meta-cognitive abilities are daily being challenged by the current explosion of machine intelligence.

keep reading at medium...

[scrungkly]

me: the lesbian lizards aren't asexual, sure they reproduce agametically but they stimulate each other to start it customs: thats nice but i was asking if you had anything to declare in your luggage

[richardtheteacher]

Introducing The P.O.W.E.R. Method of Retrieval Practice

🚀 Unleash the P.O.W.E.R. of Learning! 🌟✨ Introducing a game-changing strategy for educators: Prime, Organize, Wrestle, Evaluate, Reinforce, Internalize. From mind maps to escape rooms, this technique transforms the classroom into an engaging adventure!

An article by Richard James Rogers (Award-Winning Author of The Quick Guide to Classroom Management and The Power of Praise: Empowering Students Through Positive Feedback). This blog post has been beautifully illustrated by Pop Sutthiya Lertyongphati. Unless you’ve been hiding in cave for the past five years, it’s highly likely that you have heard the phrase ‘retrieval practice’ being bandied…

[frosty-mage]

The topic came up elsewhere, so: