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Okay, but the monkey doesn't know that it knows that it's a monkey.
by chaorace 2y ago
Okay, but the monkey doesn't know that it knows that it's a monkey.
- verdverm 2y agoare you sure? Many animals recognize themselves and their species as separate concepts
- keefle 2y agoHe meant something more meta I believe. Knowing you are a monkey is one thing, and knowing that you know you are a monkey is a another thing. It's about being cognisant of the fact that there is something called knowledge and you have it
- chaorace 2y agoPrecisely. To put it more concretely: it is no small feat to grasp the abstract distinction between known-knowns, known-unknowns, unknown-knowns, and unknown-unknowns. They do not know what they do not know.
- fourthark 2y agoHow do you know?