Methods {second-person methods} can involve consensus, intersubjective analysis, intersubjectivity, and neurophenomenology. Comparing experience reactions and subjective-knowledge reports can result in objective knowledge. By observing from both their and other viewpoints and comparing responses, people can reach consensus about subjective experiences. Operational procedures that reproducibly and reliably report sensations allow objective study of subjective experience [Velmans, 1996] [Velmans, 1999] [Velmans, 2000].
Rather than only considering first-person viewpoint, experiencer can include a second person. Two people can try to understand consciousness by each asking what other is experiencing and then exchanging asker and asked roles {intersubjective analysis of consciousness} [Thompson, 2001].
Interchanging experiencer and researcher roles can help understand experience. People can exchange reports about same stimulus {intersubjectivity} and so agree on subjective-experience aspects. Combining first-person and third-person provides intermediate second-person intersubjective viewpoints. Consciousness includes phenomena experienced in world, plus body feelings and thoughts [Velmans, 2000].
Human-experience reports constrain cognitive-science objective knowledge, and vice versa {neurophenomenology}. Neural assemblies built over time represent recent past, now, and immediate future and correlate with specific sense qualities [Varela, 1997] [Varela, 1999] [Varela et al., 2001].
Mental models or experiences are in surrounding three-dimensional space, where they seem to be. Consciousness includes phenomena experienced in world, plus body feelings and thoughts {reflexive model of consciousness} [Velmans, 2000].
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