viva le resistance

[bloodstone69]

Ok, ok, here's another entry. I've found myself encountering some serious resistance toward even opening LiveJournal the last couple of days. Oh, the pressure -- what have I done?! (more incessant whining

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[apostate_96]

Agreed on the RPG session. Personally, my focus has always been on fun vs. absolute adherence to the rules. And, given the volume of laughter we had, I'd say that it was done quite well. Sometimes it's nice to get back to those kinds of things.

I'd also concur about the opinion about metacognition being both explicit and implicit. If nothing else, the idea of intuition and apparent sudden leaps in self-understanding that can come from therapy or meditation (almost typed medication there for a momment, which would have been a telling slip....) would strongly suggest the presence of an implicit process.

Not that my thief would ever know....

[bloodstone69]

There's just so many labels, and people like to argue about labels because they're rooted in paradigms. It's all so political. *sigh*

[apostate_96]

Politics and insecurity, yup. gotta have a name to put on it, or otherwise you can't know if you're right or not, and it makes it a lot harder to prove you know what you're talking about.

The Zen I studied always makes me laugh when it comes down to that. Words are nice, but they don't capture the reality.

[bloodstone69]

amen.

[spaceoperadiva]

Hey, that is what goofy quizzes are for. Entries with little thinking or actual writing required. ;)

I write fiction best when I allow a lot of the pre-writing and plotting to happen without my conscious involvement. I could take the view that stories and characters that drop into my conscious mind almost fully formed are beamed in by god, angels or my muse, but really I think my muse lives in my subconsious and isn't an outside entity at all. S/he is my creative unconscious. (Whee, Resa is making up silly new terms!) This is far off the serious pathways of philosophical discussion, but perhaps somewhat relevant nonetheless.

[bloodstone69]

Yeah, I've got resistance to those goofy quizzes too. It may happen, eventually... you did eventually convince me to start a LiveJournal.

And just a thought: if the unconscious is connected with the collective (let's say), then what is "your" creative unconscious?

[spaceoperadiva]

Mine. All mine, Precious. Nasty collective can keep its grubby little paws off of my creative unconscious. Nasty collective, Precious is all mine!

[bloodstone69]

LOL
8)

It must be because I'm still waking up..

[donkey_hokey]

I went and googled the term "metacognition" (because it makes me think of a lot of impressive-sounding, yet vague terms that don't really mean anything), and it looks like somebody's found a nice generic label for the process of learning about yours or another's learning process. If I'm understanding the concept correctly, then I would very much agree that the position about "valid" vs. "invalid" forms of metacognition is really strange, and might even go so far as to say it's crap.

(and yes, the RPG session was a blast. It's been entirely too long.)

Re: It must be because I'm still waking up..

[bloodstone69]

Here, here! (On both points.)

Well gah.

[spaceoperadiva]

I thought it had to do with the analysis of thought and the study of thinking processes and Mr M. here was too nice to tell me I'm full of crap.

Re: Well gah.

[bloodstone69]

Hmm... I'd say that you were still right in some sense. You didn't seem completely off. Or at least it seemed you were not full of crap. Well, at least not any more than any of us. 8)