title: How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation
creator: Schwitzgebel, Eric
creator: Gordon, Michael S
subject: Perceptual Cognitive Psychology
subject: Epistemology
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: Researchers from the 1940's through the present have found that normal, sighted people can echolocate - that is, detect properties of silent objects by attending to sound reflected from them.  We argue that echolocation is a normal part of our conscious, perceptual experience.  Despite this, we argue that people are often grossly mistaken about their experience of echolocation.  If so, echolocation provides a counterexample to the view that we cannot be seriously mistaken about our own current conscious experience.
date: 2000-09
type: Preprint
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1491/3/Echo000925.pdf
identifier:   Schwitzgebel, Eric and Gordon, Michael S  (2000) How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation.  [Preprint]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/1491/