Metabiology

New term for transexuality

Just like metaphysics and metaphilosophy, ie whatever happens beyond philosophy or physics, exists, transsexuality must be renamed metabiology since transsexuals exist in contradiction to biology.

by Sexydimma March 6, 2026

Metabiases

Biases about biases—higher-order cognitive distortions that operate on our understanding of bias itself. Metabiases include the bias blind spot (thinking you're less biased than others), the fallacy fallacy (thinking that because an argument contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false), and objectivity bias (thinking your views are objective while others are biased). Metabiases are what happen when we try to think about thinking and get tangled in our own cognitive limitations. They're the reason bias education often fails: learning about bias can make you more confident in your own immunity, not less. Recognizing metabiases requires meta-cognition about meta-cognition—thinking about thinking about thinking—and humility about ever escaping bias.

Example: "He'd studied bias for years and could spot it in everyone. But when she pointed out his own biases, he dismissed her as biased. Metabiases: his bias about bias made him blind to his own. He thought knowing about bias made him immune; it just gave him new ways to be biased. The meta-level didn't free him; it just made his errors harder to see."

by Abzugal March 7, 2026

meta lie

A meta lie is a lie about your ability to know the truth

(example meta lie) You will never succeed at becoming anything.....

The speaker would have had to have the ability to time-travel to the end of the person's life, observe this as a fact and then return to the moment before they spoke.

by wilfredtr March 9, 2026

Metacognition

Thinking about thinking—the process of reflecting on, monitoring, and regulating one's own cognitive processes. Metacognition encompasses what we know about our own knowing, how we evaluate our own thinking, and how we control our own cognitive activities. It includes metacognitive knowledge (understanding what we know and don't know, what strategies work for us), metacognitive monitoring (checking our comprehension, tracking our progress), and metacognitive control (adjusting strategies, allocating attention, seeking help). Metacognition is what enables self-directed learning, critical thinking, and intellectual growth—the capacity to step back from our own thoughts and ask: Am I understanding this? Is this strategy working? What else should I consider? It's the difference between simply thinking and thinking about thinking, between knowing and knowing that you know.

Example: "He didn't just study—he practiced metacognition, constantly checking his understanding, adjusting his approach, reflecting on what worked and what didn't. He wasn't smarter than his classmates; he just thought about his thinking while they just thought."

by Dumu The Void March 16, 2026

Metaconsciousness

Consciousness of consciousness—the capacity to be aware of one's own awareness, to reflect on the nature and contents of conscious experience. Metaconsciousness encompasses self-awareness (knowing that one is conscious), introspective access (observing one's own mental states), and reflective understanding (thinking about what consciousness is and means). It's what enables us to notice that we're dreaming (lucid dreaming), to observe our own emotions without being consumed by them (mindfulness), to question the nature of our own experience (philosophical reflection). Metaconsciousness is consciousness doubled back on itself—awareness aware of being aware, experience experiencing itself. It's the foundation of self-knowledge, spiritual practice, and the distinctively human capacity to wonder what it means to be conscious at all.

Example: "In deep meditation, she experienced not just thoughts and feelings but the awareness that was aware of them—metaconsciousness, consciousness recognizing itself. It wasn't thinking about consciousness; it was consciousness experiencing its own nature."

by Dumu The Void March 16, 2026

Metaepistemology of Scientific Orthodoxy

A branch of metaepistemology that examines the epistemological frameworks we use to evaluate scientific orthodoxy—asking second-order questions about how we know what we know about orthodoxy. The metaepistemology of scientific orthodoxy investigates the standards, criteria, and assumptions we bring to judging when orthodoxy is trustworthy and when it's suspect. It asks: What counts as good evidence for the reliability of orthodoxy? How do we evaluate competing epistemological frameworks for assessing consensus? What are the meta-criteria for choosing between different accounts of when to trust science? It also examines the historical and cultural contingency of our epistemological frameworks—how different eras and different cultures have different standards for evaluating orthodoxy, and how our own standards might be limited by our context. The metaepistemology of scientific orthodoxy is epistemology about epistemology about orthodoxy—the highest-level reflection on how we know what we know about what scientists know collectively.

Example: "Her metaepistemology of scientific orthodoxy work asked: How do we know that our criteria for trusting scientific consensus are the right criteria? It's epistemology all the way down—and realizing that doesn't paralyze us, but it does make us humble about our certainties."

by Abzugal March 16, 2026

Metabolical Thermodynamics

A framework that explains how living systems—organisms, ecosystems—maintain order and perform work while obeying thermodynamic laws, often appearing to violate them. Metabolical thermodynamics draws on Prigogine's work on dissipative structures: life is an open system that continuously exchanges energy and matter with its environment, exporting entropy to maintain internal order. Metabolism is the process of capturing energy (from sun or food) and using it to build structures, drive reactions, and reproduce. This framework shows that life doesn't break the second law; it uses it: local order is created at the expense of global entropy increase. Metabolical thermodynamics unites biology and physics, showing that life is a thermodynamic imperative, not an exception.

Example: "A cell appears to violate thermodynamics by maintaining low entropy, but metabolical thermodynamics shows it's actually a heat engine: consuming energy-rich molecules and releasing waste heat, exporting entropy to stay organized."

by Abzugal March 22, 2026