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Rosenbloom (2013) gave reasons why Computing should be considered as a fourth great domain of science, along with the Physical sciences, Life sciences, and Social sciences. This paper adapts Rosenbloom’s ‘metascience expression language’ to support descriptions and comparison of metascience and metacognition, and discusses the similarity of metascience and metacognition.
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I thank Paul Rosenbloom for comments on earlier drafts of a longer paper [5], which prompted revisions and additional discussions.
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Information in this table is combined from Rosenbloom [8] page 3, Figure 1.1, Table 2.1, and Figure 2.1.
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If metascience is considered to be a domain of science, then metascience also applies reflectively to itself. Cf. Weyhrauch’s paper [9] on FOL, a conversational system which represented theories and supported a self-reflective meta-theory. FOL could reason about possibly inconsistent theories, and address questions about theories of theory building.
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Jackson, P.C. (2020). Metascience and Metacognition. In: Samsonovich, A. (eds) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2019. BICA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 948. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25719-4_21
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