Stephen Fleming: Limits of self knowledge

Stephen Fleming is a professor of cognitive neuroscience whose work focuses on metacognition and the computational and neural basis of subjective experience. He’s the author of the book Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness. Episode links, show notes and bonus content here: https://www.matthewgeleta.com/ Make a one-off donation here: https://bit.ly/donate-to-paradigm Timestamps: 0:00:00 Self deception 0:07:00 Cognitive biases and over confidence 0:13:25 Evolution of metacognitive biases 0:17:00 Dunning Kruger effect 0:19:40 Split brain experiments and self narratives 0:24:20 Delusion of self understanding 0:28:40 Isolation of losing touch with reality 0:33:20 How good is our metacognition? 0:37:40 Metacognition vs performance 0:41:30 How trainable is metacognition? 0:45:40 Limits of self knowledge 0:49:30 Theory of self vs others 0:53:00 Benefits from improving metacognition 1:00:20 Psychosis and reality vs imagination 1:13:00 The hard problem of consciousness 1:25:50 Book recommendations 1:32:15 Who should represent humanity to an AI superintelligence? Links: - Twitter: @smfleming - Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Know-Thyself-New-Science-Self-Awareness/dp/1529345065 - The Metalab: https://metacoglab.org/ #psychology #imagination #neuroscience #selfimprovement #intelligence