metacognition · stacked
Ask Prometheusa model whose subject is another model, taking that model's window as its own parameter, so it sees drift the model under it cannot report from inside.
Metacognition (noun) means: a model whose subject is another model, taking that model's window as its own parameter, so it sees drift the model under it cannot report from inside. It emerges from model, self-model, subject, window: A second model takes the first model's window as the quantity it tracks, so movement of that window becomes visible from one level up even though it is invisible from within. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- A student pauses over a practice exam and marks which answers were guesses, predicting the score before it is graded. education
- A flight computer cross-checks its inertial estimate against GPS and widens its own error bounds when the two drift apart. engineering
- Ensemble forecasting runs many weather models and treats their spread, not any single run, as the forecast's stated uncertainty. meteorology
Emergence
through: A second model takes the first model's window as the quantity it tracks, so movement of that window becomes visible from one level up even though it is invisible from within.
- stacked modeling
- window-as-parameter tracking
- externally visible drift
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (252 steps)
- metacognitionL15
- modelL9
- self-modelL14
- subjectL5
- windowL7
- parameterL4
- takeL6
- seeL6
- driftL11
- reportL8
- messageL7
- stateL2
- happenL2
- eventL3
- informationL6
- insideL5
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | model.representation | a model whose subject is another model |
| contrasts-with | introspection.access | metacognition is a model whose subject is another model; introspection is a model reading its own pattern - a stacked model versus a reflexive read |