{"id":2245,"date":"2013-10-17T10:53:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T17:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deconstructingyourself.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2024-07-04T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T23:32:03","slug":"thinking-about-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deconstructingyourself.com\/thinking-about-thinking.html","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As far as we know, human beings are the only animal capable of introspection\u2014the ability to examine our own mental processes. We not only think, but can observe ourselves in the act of thinking, a function also called\u00a0metacognition<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While philosophers and theologians have long trumpeted the importance of our introspective powers, until now scientists have known little about the brain networks involved. For example, is introspection one capactity, or does it vary depending on what we’re reflection on?<\/p>\n

UC Santa Barbara grad student Benjamin Baird’s findings published in the\u00a0Journal of Neuroscience<\/em>\u00a0point toward an answer to this fundamental question. Baird assigned two different classic tasks\u2014one on perception and one on memory\u2014to subjects and then used fMRI scanning to examine the brain networks involved in introspection.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur results suggest that metacognitive or introspective ability may not be a single thing,\u201d Baird said. \u201cWe actually find a behavioral dissociation between the two metacognitive abilities across people, which suggests that you can be good at reflecting on your memory but poor at reflecting on your perception, or vice versa.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Introspection, then, is not a single system. Our skill at metacognition seems to depend on the object of reflection\u2014whether you’re observing sensory input or recalling a memory.<\/p>\n

From the\u00a0Being Human\u00a0perspective, this jives well with the understanding that there is no single self-entity who is observing all our inner states and passing thoughts. The sense of a self who is observing may be nothing more than the result of the brain’s attributing the always-changing introspective function to us as an individual organism.<\/p>\n

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