Commentary: Can Inner Experience Be Apprehended in High Fidelity? Examining Brain Activation and Experience from Multiple Perspectives

Frontiers in Psychology

Henry D. Schlinger¹ 

关键词: pristine inner experience;    introspection;    consciousness;    behavior;    behavior analysis;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00360

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Hurlburt et al. (2017) argue that they can potentially produce high-fidelity apprehensions of pristine inner experience that are radically non-subjective. In so doing, they claim that inner experience is an important topic and, contrary to almost unanimous scientific consensus, a method of introspection may be reliably used to directly apprehend it. In this and related articles (e.g., Hurlburt and Heavey, 2001; Heavy and Hurlburt, 2008), Hurlburt et al. reverse a general trend in psychology over the past 100 years toward studying behavior and away from studying subjective experience. In this commentary, I offer a logical and explicitly behavioristic (i.e., Skinnerian) critique of some of Hurlburt et al.'s points.

【 授权许可】

CC BY