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    Challenges→Immediate judgments cannot be false and must therefore be certain

    Descartes' cogito aside, even introspective judgments about one's own mental states are subject to systematic misreporting, as Nisbett & Wilson's 1977 empirical work demonstrated.

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    • 1.Nisbett & Wilson demonstrated subjects confabulate reasons for choices when actual causes were demonstrably different stimuli.
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    • 2.Cognitive biases (anchoring, availability) systematically distort self-reports without subjects detecting the distortion.
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    • 3.Neural activity precedes conscious awareness in decision-making, suggesting consciousness post-hoc narrates rather than introspects.
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    • 1.Nisbett & Wilson's paradigm tested deliberative explanations of *why*, not immediate phenomenal awareness of *what* one experiences.
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    • 2.Some introspective reports (pain, visual experiences) show high accuracy and consistency; overgeneralizing from failures ignores successes.
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    • 3.Introspective accuracy likely varies by domain and training; dismissing all reports collapses distinctions between genuine blindness and uncertainty.
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