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The infamous English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge “was also a metacognitive theorist far ahead of his time,” writes David Schneider.
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The infamous English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge “was also a metacognitive theorist far ahead of his time,” writes David Schneider. “Specifically, from around 1796 to about 1808, Coleridge was incessantly burying into four related questions: how does perception work; how does the mind think; what is the Imagination; and how does perception become thought become action?” Many of today’s scientists are still dealing with these same questions.

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