#mental-model # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[fs.blog - Second-Order Thinking What Smart People Use to Outperform - Farnam Street]] - [[Thinking before acting]] - [[Consciousness emerges from game theoretical needs]] - [[Barbell thinking]] # Second-Order Thinking In chess people try to predict what might happen after each of their move-opportunity, they simulate the future in their mind, after all isn't it what [[Philosophy/Consciousness/Consciousness|consciousness]] exist for? Second-Order Thinking is about trying to simulate the following chain-effect of your decision(s). In his book "The Future of the Mind", physicist Michio Kaku discusses the idea of different levels of consciousness. He posits that a level 3 consciousness, what humans possess, includes the ability to construct a model of the world and run simulations of the future in order to make better decisions. Therefore, Second-Order Thinking could be seen as one manifestation of our level 3 consciousness at work.