A significant problem for case-based reasoning (CBR) systems is determining the features to use in judging case similarity for retrieval. We describe research that addresses the feature selection problem by using introspective reasoning to learn new features for indexing. Our method augments the CBR system with an introspective reasoning component which monitors system performance to detect poo...

This paper concerns the recently introduced notion of introspective classification. We introduce a variant of the point-biserial correlation coe cient (PBCC) as a measure to characterise the introspective capacity of a classifier and apply it to investigate further the introspective capacity of boosting – a well established, e cient machine learning framework commonly used in robotics. While re...

The ubiquity of inner awareness thesis (UIA) states that all conscious states of normal adult humans are characterised by an inner awareness of that very state. UIA-Backers support this thesis while UIA-Skeptics reject it. At the heart of their dispute is a recalcitrant phenomenological disagreement. UIA-Backers claim that phenomenological investigation reveals 'peripheral inner awareness' (or ...

Science ultimately seeks to reliably predict aspects of the future; but, how is this even possible in light of the logical paradox that making a prediction may cause the world to evolve in a manner that defeats it? We show how learning can naturally resolve this conundrum. The problem is studied within a causal or temporal version of the Probably Approximately Correct semantics, extended so tha...

Whereas earlier research suggests that the fruits of introspection may promote error and misperception, this research suggests that thinking about the self may sometimes foster self-insight. Participants who had opportunity to reflect on themselves were particularly inclined to display self-insight by (a) rating feedback that confirmed their self-views as self-descriptive (Experiments 1 and 3),...

This study argues that Robert Browning uses the method of “introspection,” psychological self-examination or first-person observation one’s own mental and emotional processes, used by Victorian psychologists, to represent various states speaker in Pauline: A Fragment a Confession (1833). Accordingly, this analyses it pursuing different methods portrayal human soul obtain an insight into changes...

Which cognitive processes are accessible to conscious report? To study the limits of conscious reportability, we designed a novel method of quantified introspection, in which subjects were asked, after each trial of a standard cognitive task, to estimate the time spent completing the task. We then applied classical mental-chronometry techniques, such as the additive-factors method, to analyze t...