Probing for relevance: what metacognition tells us about the power of consciousness.
Metacognitive attitudes can affect behavior but do they do so, as Koriat claims, because they enhance voluntary control? This Commentary makes a case for saying that metacognitive consciousness may enhance not control but subjective predictability and may be best studied by examining not just healthy, well-integrated cognizers, but victims of multilevel mental disorders.
Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 35294-1260, USA. ggraham@uab.edu
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D001519:Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D008960:Models, Psychological