I think there are qualia that you can't transmit with words alone. Some ideas are psychologically load-bearing and to some degree, those are the ones that you can't create with just meta-cognition because they're strongly tied to deeply emotional beliefs.
Concretely, with the example of learning to play chess, there's a point where you get good enough to beat/draw everyone in an average high school. That point is about 1500-1800 ELO. Then you'll join a chess tournament and get your ass handed to you. There's a confidence you pick up at that point of knowing that you can win against almost every random stranger on the street, but also the humility that you... (read more)
I think there are qualia that you can't transmit with words alone. Some ideas are psychologically load-bearing and to some degree, those are the ones that you can't create with just meta-cognition because they're strongly tied to deeply emotional beliefs.
Concretely, with the example of learning to play chess, there's a point where you get good enough to beat/draw everyone in an average high school. That point is about 1500-1800 ELO. Then you'll join a chess tournament and get your ass handed to you. There's a confidence you pick up at that point of knowing that you can win against almost every random stranger on the street, but also the humility that you... (read more)