Is metacognition a conscious process?
Metacognition may be a very conscious glowing process if you consciously, actively vigilantly, and perhaps also more or less astutely, are working with cognition about cognition, if you are engaged in contemplating or in studying the cognition, or some cognition, of some process or processes of cognition. There may be no ambiguity in being conscious, but of course you may say that you, or others, are “more or less conscious”, that you, perhaps, are not all too able to immediately describe a way in which you are being conscious. You may be more or less conscious of the content of an attitude, of the particular attitude that you have and are thinking of that we do not know about unless you tell us. You might say the same about the activity, of an activity being done/enacted by you while you are awake. The evaluation may be glowingly conscious, but also sort of unconscious, or based on shady attitudes where the true motives are slurred by blunt or crass ignorance or obscured because of si
