Describing one’s subjective experience in the second person: An interview method for the science of consciousness
C. Petitmengin
November 29, 2006 DOI: 10.1007/s11097-006-9022-2 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Proposes an interview method that enables even untrained individuals to become aware of and precisely describe their subjective experience, addressing the difficulties of awareness and articulation and outlining criteria for the validity of the resulting descriptions. |
Abstract
This article presents an interview method which enables us to bring a person, who may not even have been trained, to become aware of his or her subjective experience, and describe it with great precision. It is focused on the difficulties of becoming aware of one’s subjective experience and describing it, and on the processes used by this interview technique to overcome each of these difficulties. The article ends with a discussion of the criteria governing the validity of the descriptions obtained, and then with a brief review of the functions of these descriptions.
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