%A Eric Schwitzgebel
%A Michael S Gordon
%T How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation
%X 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.
%D 2000
%K echolocation, audition, hearing, consciousness, phenomenology, introspection, self-knowledge
%L cogprints1491

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