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Consciousness and introspection: How we get to know the inner world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

John Smythies
John Smythies
Affiliation:
Brain and Perception Laboratory, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109 [email protected] Department of Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Neurology, London, England
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Abstract

We can in fact obtain scientific information about the contents of consciousness by the methods of introspectionist psychology. An example comes from the author's work on the stroboscopic patterns and from the way psychedelic drugs alter color perception.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 971 - 972
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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