On Consciousness

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“I think therefore I am.” — Descartes

I’ve been more and more cognizant of my own thinking lately. Maybe that has something to do with getting older. Maybe it’s all the podcasts I’ve been listening to. My metacognition has tripled in size since college and has expanded heavily throughout my 20s; most of which, I’ve come to realize, has happened during the latter part of that decade. One might even be able to visualize this…