People can analyze their thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and subjective experiences. First-person methods {first-person methods} involve existence, infallibility, introspection, phenomenology, privileged access, and subjective knowledge.
Perhaps, sense qualities are different existence-or-being kinds than physical things. Both existence kinds can connect using thinking mind [Searle, 1983] [Searle, 1992] [Searle, 1997].
Perhaps, people can have special subjective knowledge about their sense qualities, knowledge that differs from objective knowledge. Both knowledge kinds can connect using thinking mind [Metzinger, 2003].
In early first-person methods {introspection}|, people trained themselves to attend to, and think about, their subjective experiences, then report their observations.
People can introspect only mental states that are subjective or have subjective, phenomenological characteristics. Introspection does not reveal body processes [James, 1890] [Titchener, 1904] [Wundt, 1873].
Individuals have large phenomenal-experience differences, and introspective reports are not reproducible. Observing always requires hypotheses about what is happening [Lyons, 1986]. Introspection does not always understand, predict, or control [Barlow, 1987] [Barlow, 1995].
In early first-person methods {phenomenology method}, people trained themselves to try to suspend all judgments and hypotheses while they attended to their subjective experiences [Heidegger, 1996] [Husserl, 1905] [Husserl, 1907] [Husserl, 1913] [Merleau-Ponty, 1945] [Richardson and Velmans, 1997] [Stevens, 1997] [Stevens, 2000]. Consciousness study today uses some phenomenology methods [Depraz, 1999] [Hut, 1999] [Stevens, 2000] [Varela and Shear, 1999].
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