Like if there’s an email I keep freezing around. I can tell there’s something there. I might even have some intuitive guesses about what it is!
…but I do not check. I don’t introspect on whether my guesses feel right.
Instead, I hypothesize. What hostile telepath problem might someone in my shoes be trying to solve such that this behavior arises?
I tried doing this and it felt promising, and then I noticed a familiar feeling of wanting tell a person affected by my possible self-deception how I’d now solved the problem and would behave differently from now on. And I remembered that on each previous time when I’d had that feeling and told the other person something like that, my behavior had in fact not changed at all as a consequence.
I tried doing this and it felt promising, and then I noticed a familiar feeling of wanting tell a person affected by my possible self-deception how I’d now solved the problem and would behave differently from now on. And I remembered that on each previous time when I’d had that feeling and told the other person something like that, my behavior had in fact not changed at all as a consequence.
And now I’m chuckling at myself.
Yeah, bad habits are a bitch.