Describing inner experience?
by Russell T. Hurlburt, Eric Schwitzgebel · first published 2007
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I love this sampling method. I've read both _Exploring Inner Experience_ and _Describing Inner Experience_ by Russel T. Hurlburt and found myself thinking several times "This has so many applications!" E.g. say someone doesn't know whether to break up with their significant other or not. We could write…
on “Mapping happiness: my iPhone app/research project” ↗Eric is a fantastic writer and I highly suggest his books including a recent collection of his works in "The Weirdness of the World". Finding "Describing Inner Experience" in grad school had a profound effect on me.
on “The disunity of consciousness in everyday experience” ↗…book. For example, the year prior to my arrival they read thru a "Climbing the Mountain", an early draft of the book that would eventually become Parfit's "On What Matters". Anyway, my year all picked "Describing Inner Experience", and this would become my introduction to an ultimately useful view that opened the world of CogSci to me since assumptions I had (which can probably be described at Cartesian) no longer posed powerful…
on “The disunity of consciousness in everyday experience” ↗