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Comment author: MrMind 24 December 2014 09:46:29AM 0 points [-]

Are we overestimating the importance of meta-cognition?

Comment author: Gurkenglas 24 December 2014 10:08:42AM *  1 point [-]

In any random given magic system that wasn't balanced against this, focusing yourself on Metamagic is a semi-reliable way of finding gamebreakers.

I daresay nobody balanced the Universe.

Comment author: MrMind 29 December 2014 11:15:08AM *  1 point [-]

While metamagic is a causal level below magic, meta-cognition is a causal level above cognition.
You cannot really dictate the state of your neurons through meta-cognition. It seems to me extremely unlikely that something very valuable would come from this.

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