creators_name: Schwitzgebel, Eric
creators_name: Gordon, Michael S
type: preprint
datestamp: 2001-05-09
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:38
metadata_visibility: show
title: How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation
subjects: percep-cog-psy
subjects: phil-epist
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: echolocation, audition, hearing, consciousness, phenomenology, introspection, self-knowledge
abstract: 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
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Schwitzgebel, Eric and Gordon, Michael S  (2000) How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation.  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1491/3/Echo000925.pdf