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Part 4: Taking Meta-Rationality Seriously

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The heart of the meta-rationality book: what meta-rationality is, why it matters, and how to do it.
 
 
A first lesson in meta-rationality, or stage 5 cognition, using Bongard problems as a laboratory. This is an essay from metarationality.com edited and inserted into In The Cells Of The Eggplant, with the permission of the author.
 
 
Some links in the episode:
 
Index of Bongard problems
 
 
Brian Cantwell Smith: The philosophy of computation - meaning, mechanism, mystery

Alexandre Linhares' "A glimpse at the metaphysics of Bongard problems." (Through the Internet Archive)
 
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Original music by Kevin MacLeod.
 
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