The Circular Mirror
Published: February 25, 2026
Duration: 27:21
Movement I: Epistemology
Metacognition is the awareness of awareness itself; the capacity to observe the structure that generates thought while experience is unfolding.
The unconscious mind is capable of discernment; it has its own delicate sensibility. It knows how to choose, how to divine.
— Jules Henri Poincaré, “Mathematical Creation,” lecture delivered to the Société de Psychologie de Paris, 1908; later published in Science and Method (1908).
As I was browsing X, I bumped into Eileen Gu [Watch video at the end of Movement I,] who had just won Olympic medals. She was a...