Know that you know......

[waysider]

It turns out, it might not be so good to be sure you "know that you know that you know".

"Thoughts don't just flit around in our heads unobserved: humans know when something's going on in our own brains, and we evaluate our own thoughts. For example, we can judge when we're not certain about something, and act accordingly. This ability, called metacognition (thinking about thinking), has been found in a number of species, but humans are unusual in our ability to communicate what we know about our own thoughts and knowledge.

How early in life do we develop metacognition? Children under the age of four, who confidently proclaim knowledge of things they can’t possibly know, seem to be pretty bad at it. Babies, on the other hand, point at things to ask questions about them. They shouldn't be able to do this unless they've worked out that they don't know something."

Read more here:

SOURCE

[Rocky]

It turns out, it might not be so good to be sure you "know that you know that you know".

"Thoughts don't just flit around in our heads unobserved: humans know when something's going on in our own brains, and we evaluate our own thoughts. For example, we can judge when we're not certain about something, and act accordingly. This ability, called metacognition (thinking about thinking), has been found in a number of species, but humans are unusual in our ability to communicate what we know about our own thoughts and knowledge.

How early in life do we develop metacognition? Children under the age of four, who confidently proclaim knowledge of things they can't possibly know, seem to be pretty bad at it. Babies, on the other hand, point at things to ask questions about them. They shouldn't be able to do this unless they've worked out that they don't know something."

Read more here:

SOURCE

Intriguing.

[DontWorryBeHappy]

I know that I know that I don't know!

Edited March 17, 2016 by DontWorryBeHappy