What's the difference between these words? What are correct and incorrect ways to use them? To what degree do the definitions and useful usages overlap? To what degree do they not overlap? meta, awareness, transparency, meta-awareness, meta-transparency, self-awareness, meta-self.
I've never heard the term "meta-self". Meta-x usually means "x applied to x". Self-awareness means the self is aware of the self, so that's similar. Transparency often implies that someone other than the self is aware of the internals of that self, so nearly the reverse of self-awareness. A person could easily be transparent to everyone BUT themself.
Posted by: TGGP | July 24, 2008 at 06:46 PM