[PoisedWoman]

"Meta-cognition is considered one of our most sophisticated capacities." Among other things, it's the ability to realize, after perusing a column, that you have no idea what you just read.

I often have that feeling after reading Reuters "news" and books by liberals and listening to speeches by Dems. Seemed to me that they were intentionally plotting to bewilder people into submission. But perhaps I do the Rats an injustice. After all, the article goes on to state:

Rats and pigeons, though undeniably clever, don't seem to know when they don't know.

[angkor]

Gregory Bateson was the philosopher/anthropologist who made it known that only humans and dolphins exercise the faculty of "learning about learning."

In other words, both dolphins and humans know "what we don't know" and know how to learn more.

Bateson called it "second-order learning," and only humans and dolphins are know to possess that faculty.