(My thanks to whoever it was who recommended Egan’s _The Educated Mind_ to me; it’s taken a couple years to get to reading the book and I’m afraid I’ve forgotten, so I can’t give credit)
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Replying to @Meaningness
I think this was me—I remember mentioning it to you in Tahoe, although someone may have beat me to it.
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It’s excellent, although a bit frustrating for my purposes, because it has only a couple pages on meta-rat. Like almost all stage theorists, the treatment is very abstract, and the sense is that this is something too advanced for the audience of the book. (Kegan does this too.)
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It’s really strange that many outstanding thinkers understand meta-rat and recognize its importance, but almost no one has written a book-length treatment. The few who have are crankish and not credible.
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Egan says he has “nothing much to say” about Ironic (stage 5) education, because it “is unconstrained in ways that leave so much room that prescription would be pointless” (p. 207). TRY HARDER, DUDE!
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My recollection was that he said quite a bit, though usually not _directly_—I recall most of it being the subtext in the parts about maintaining “lower” levels of cognition.
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Yes, that’s good and important!
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