This is not very topical, but does anyone want to help me come up with a new term paper topic for my course on self-knowledge? My original one got shot down when it turned out that what I was really trying to defend was a hidden assumption that is unrelated to self-knowledge. Any interesting view I can defend or attack on the subject of introspection, reflection, self-awareness, etc. etc. has potential. Recommended reading is appreciated.
I found Strangers to Ourselves an interesting read on this topic. One of his claims is that the best way to come to know yourself is to study how others react to you and to study your own actions rather than relying on introspection which is an interesting perspective.
Someone mentioned Eric Schwitzgebel here recently, and if you didn’t catch it, his papers might be of help. I’m currently reading “The Unreliability of Naïve Introspection”, and it’s very good so far.
I was the person who mentioned Eric Schwitzgebel, and that paper is a reading we were assigned in class. I’d love to write something on him, but the trouble is that I just agree with him; that isn’t enough for a five-page paper, let alone twenty.
Do you read OB as well? Robin Hanson’s posts often cover topics related to self-knowledge (typically how our actions are better explained by such cynical factors as social signaling, and our beliefs are revised in feel-good ways). I’d say just about any of the studies he links could use up a number of pages.
In many eastern philosophies, there are meditational practices which seek to see without ego. In less wrong and other places, i got ideas that autistic people don’t construct stories, they see things as they are.
A topic you could try is—When an autistic person sees within himself, there is something present there, not just nothing ness.
Such research could be useful in constructing artificial conciousness and uploading applications. Kudos!
This is not very topical, but does anyone want to help me come up with a new term paper topic for my course on self-knowledge? My original one got shot down when it turned out that what I was really trying to defend was a hidden assumption that is unrelated to self-knowledge. Any interesting view I can defend or attack on the subject of introspection, reflection, self-awareness, etc. etc. has potential. Recommended reading is appreciated.
I found Strangers to Ourselves an interesting read on this topic. One of his claims is that the best way to come to know yourself is to study how others react to you and to study your own actions rather than relying on introspection which is an interesting perspective.
Someone mentioned Eric Schwitzgebel here recently, and if you didn’t catch it, his papers might be of help. I’m currently reading “The Unreliability of Naïve Introspection”, and it’s very good so far.
I was the person who mentioned Eric Schwitzgebel, and that paper is a reading we were assigned in class. I’d love to write something on him, but the trouble is that I just agree with him; that isn’t enough for a five-page paper, let alone twenty.
Well, that’s what I get for not verifying who mentioned him ^_^
Do you read OB as well? Robin Hanson’s posts often cover topics related to self-knowledge (typically how our actions are better explained by such cynical factors as social signaling, and our beliefs are revised in feel-good ways). I’d say just about any of the studies he links could use up a number of pages.
In many eastern philosophies, there are meditational practices which seek to see without ego. In less wrong and other places, i got ideas that autistic people don’t construct stories, they see things as they are.
A topic you could try is—When an autistic person sees within himself, there is something present there, not just nothing ness.
Such research could be useful in constructing artificial conciousness and uploading applications. Kudos!
Um, yes.