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Meta means self-referential. How are emotional skills "self-referential cognitive skills?"
by Danihan 9y ago
Meta means self-referential. How are emotional skills "self-referential cognitive skills?"
- thanatropism 9y agoMeta-x = x about x. E.g. meta-theory is a theory about theories, not a theory about itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta (Douglas Hofstdadter made a career of cheerfully pointing out that a theory about theories must include itself as the kind of theories it is about -- "I am a strange loop" and all that. But still, what the language means is that.)
- Danihan 9y agoRight but that doesn't apply here. Meta almost means "higher-level" as you're using it, but emotional processing isn't a higher-level cognitive skill. It's just a different type of cognition. Meta implies a hierarchy.
- thanatropism 9y agoI see the problem here. It's too strong to say that being good in using your emotions (say, as an actor) is a form of level 1-cognitive grasp of a level-2 cognitive process. "Non-epistemic" might be an alternative to "non-cognitive".