Since getting an Ed.D. in Humanistic and Behavioral Studies at Boston University School of Education in 1982, I have been conducting a 35-year study of my own mind through an intensive, life-long course of introspection. My paper, Situated Intelligence: An Introspective Model of Consciousness, is the distillation of the findings from that study. Rather than dismiss introspection as unreliable, I pursue the mistakes and conundrums my mind presents to me in order to understand why, under particular circumstances, my world appears to me as it does. Claiming that introspection is unreliable is like saying knives are too dangerous to use in the ho…
Since getting an Ed.D. in Humanistic and Behavioral Studies at Boston University School of Education in 1982, I have been conducting a 35-year study of my own mind through an intensive, life-long course of introspection. My paper, Situated Intelligence: An Introspective Model of Consciousness, is the distillation of the findings from that study. Rather than dismiss introspection as unreliable, I pursue the mistakes and conundrums my mind presents to me in order to understand why, under particular circumstances, my world appears to me as it does. Claiming that introspection is unreliable is like saying knives are too dangerous to use in the home. The art is in how we use them, not their undeniable flaws.
