TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints1491
UR  - http://cogprints.org/1491/
A1  - Schwitzgebel, Eric
A1  - Gordon, Michael S
TI  - How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation
Y1  - 2000/09//
N2  - 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.
AV  - public
KW  - echolocation
KW  -  audition
KW  -  hearing
KW  -  consciousness
KW  -  phenomenology
KW  -  introspection
KW  -  self-knowledge
ER  -

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