The current study is the first to investigate confabulatory introspection in relation to clinical psychological symptoms utilizing the Choice Blindness Paradigm (CBP). It was hypothesized that those with obsessive-compulsive symptoms are more likely to confabulate mental states. To test this hypothesis, an experimental choice blindness task was administered in two nonclinical samples (n = 47; n...

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Sexual violence in its many forms is experienced by an overwhelming number of women and men the United States.1 Yet, who are survivors sexual then accused similar lack a voice literature. In this autoethnography, author tells story victimization using Ellis’s sociological introspection to analyze her feelings assault.2 Following analysis, she continues narrative recounting another form victimiz...

Eliminative functionalism is the view that mental attributes, of humans and other machines, consist ultimately in behavioural abilities or dispositions. Hence, ‘Strong AI’: if a machine consistently acts as if it were fully conscious, then conscious it is. From these assumptions, optimistic futurists have derived a variety of remarkable visions of our ‘post-human’ future; from widely-recognised...

To effectively reason about one’s own knowledge, goals, and reasoning requires an ability to explicitly introspect. A computational model of introspection is a second-order theory that contains a formal language for representing first-order processes and that processes instances of this representation. The reasoning algorithm used to perform such processing is similar to the algorithm used to r...

Introspection is a general term covering the ability of an agent to reflect upon the workings of his own cognitive functions. In this paper we wi l l be concerned wi th developing an explanatory theory of a particular type of introspection: a robot agent's knowledge of his own beliefs. The development is both descriptive, in the sense of being able to capture introspective behavior as it exist;...