Metacognition: A New Aspect V2
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 23, 2026 Tirth Kapadia
This essay challenges the prevailing assumption that metacognition — the capacity to think about one's own thinking — is a rare, unevenly distributed skill that must be taught. Drawing on parallel emergence of metacognitive markers across separate hominin species in the fossil record, it proposes instead that metacognition is an architectural default of the prefrontal cortex, present in all...