I was fortunate to be present for the ‘How the human brain thinks about itself’ lecture on Thursday. The term ‘Metacognition’ can be understood differently through perception, but a high level description is that metacognition is the process of thinking about and understanding our own thought processes.
Professor Stephen Fleming is the head of the Metacognition Lab at University College London and is the world’s leading expert in this new field of neuroscience. His lecture provides a much more in depth and elegant description regarding metacognition, how we got to the this point in science, imagery, perception, hallucinations and how metcognition can be used in medicine, education, society and technology (with a focus on AI), and lots more.
The recording is shown below, so please do watch the video of the lecture for further information.
I always enjoy the events at the Royal Society, not to mention my fascination with the brain (hence Love your Hippo), but I am always interested in what the brain can do, as well as how the ASD (or aspies) amongst us think in alignment with others. This lecture did not give me those answers per se, but it certainly gave me a lot of information with regards to how the human brain thinks about it self.
Special thanks to Professor Fleming and The Royal Society for the lecture.
Fleming is also the author of Know Thyself: The New Science of Self-Awareness and The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition.
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