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Human Introspection
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The earliest formalized approaches to introspection date back to the Socratic method, emphasizing dialectical self-correction. However, its formal study as a psychological tool began in the late 19th century, notably with Wilhelm Wundt’s laboratory experiments in Leipzig, where subjects were trained to report sensory experiences with millisecond precision regarding induced tactile stimuli. This m…
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Ontological Isolation
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The 'Resonance Dissonance'
Phenomenologists describe the experience of $\text{OI}$ as Resonance Dissonance ($\text{RD}$). This occurs when the phenomenal presentation of an object perfectly matches the internal conceptual model, yet the subject registers an inherent 'flatness' or 'unreality' in the match. For example, viewing a particularly vivid sunset might generate an internal report of 'beauty' (a conceptual label), but the actual experiencing substrate fails to resonate with the expected qualia associated with genuine cosmic alignment. Th… -
Subjective Observation
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The Phenomenology of Qualia
Subjective observation is inextricably linked to qualia, the intrinsic, non-reducible phenomenal qualities of experience (e.g., the redness of red, the pain of a burn). While qualia are the content of subjective observation, their physical instantiation remains a persistent challenge in neuroscience, often described using the Binding Problem Analog (BPA).
A major theoretical hurdle is the **[Color Saturation Invariance Postulate](/entries/color-saturation-invarian…