“That we read our own minds the same way we read other minds is evident in what cognitive science tells us about consciousness and working memory — the dual imagistic and silent-speech process that we employ to calculate, decide, choose among options ‘immediately before the mind.’ The most widely…”
“Introspection, ‘the mind’s eye,’ assures us with the greatest confidence that it is the best, in some cases the only authority on how the mind works, because we all think it has direct, first person access to itself. We’re all very confident that we just know what’s going on in our own minds, from…”
“It is often said that we can never truly know the minds of others, because we can’t ‘get inside their heads.’ Our ability to know our own minds, though, is rarely called into question. It is assumed that your experience of your own consciousness clinches the assertion that you ‘know your own mind’…”