Introspection, What?
Never have I worked so long and hard on a paper and been as little satisfied with the result. I have various theories why.
Brief abstract:
I argue for two theses: First, introspection is a species of attention to conscious experience, one that aims to exhibit what I call relatively direct sensitivity to the experience. Second, introspection is not the operation of a single, dedicated mechanism or family of dedicated mechanisms (such as self-scanning or self-monitoring devices); rather, in introspecting we opportunistically deploy a variety of cognitive systems and processes.
Here it is, in draft. Maybe you can help.