Part 2, Philosophy of Mind.

Listeners are encouraged to revisit episodes 319 and 25 for an introduction to philosophy of mind if you've never looked at it before.

Okay, Dan, so we'll start off with the first question.

Well, since Husserl, there's been a kind of method of inquiry that was introduced to philosophy,

and this is called the phenomenological method,

or what you've called, as you've called it, the auto phenomenological method. And kind of simply put,

this is the idea that we kind of introspect our experiences and kind of try to describe them in,

you know, great detail. And from this, we can kind of draw certain metaphysical conclusions.

You, however, have suggested another method, and you give it the rather ominous title.

I think you claim yourself of heterophenomenology.

Could you explain for our listeners what heterophenomenology is is and why is it supposed to be advantageous to auto

phenomenology?

Auto phenomenology is phenomenology from the first person point of view where you just sit there and

introspect.

Heterophenomenology is when you get others to introspect or to participate in experiments,

which you discuss with them and ask them lots of questions about and measure all kinds of things,

and get them to express themselves by pressing buttons or saying things,

acting in various ways.

And what you glean from this is their account of what it's like to be them.

And I claim that, first of all, you can't do auto-phenominalology scientifically.

This is, this is, the science has to involve data that can be objectively verified.

But that doesn't mean it rules out data about consciousness.

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