Metacognitive Particle

System that encodes beliefs about a subset of its own internal states; prerequisite for the emergence of the separation prior

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

thinker

framework

Active Inference
implements
Foundational framework by Karl Friston; the paper extends it to three hierarchical levels for modeling meta-awareness.

concept

Separation Prior (sigma)
associated_with
Structural prior over QRF deployments constraining all measurements to respect a self/environment partition; formalisation of the belief in a separate self

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Metacognitionconcept0.844
The ability to model one's own cognition; linked to consciousness and decision-making across theories.
metacognitive spaceconcept0.793
Ji-An et al.'s characterization of the limited regime in which model self-report succeeds, consistent with this paper's findings
Metacognitive monitoringconcept0.772
Higher-order mechanism that evaluates the reliability of first-order perceptual representations.
Metacognitive Representation Criterion (Higher-Order Thought)concept0.761
Core criterion for introspection: model must possess internal metacognitive representation of state prior to verbalization, not merely translate impulse directly into language.
A purely cognitive particle has no representational basis on which to distinguish self-generated from environment-generated observations; metacognitive architecture is the prerequisite for the separation priorclaim0.749
Developmental account of why and when sigma emerges during ontogeny
Meta-learningconcept0.745
The capability of GPT-3 to learn tasks from few-shot prompts during runtime.
Meta-Awarenessconcept0.725
System's awareness of its own attentional states; the paper's central explanatory target, formalized as precision over attentional state representations.
meta-constructconcept0.724
A system component outside the application domain that provides infrastructure (e.g., backplane, interface repository).