First-person reports describe phenomenal properties (what experiences are like), but third-person methods access only structural/functional properties—a category mismatch, not mere prediction failure.
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Third-person methods(contrasted with first-person reports)
Scientific approaches that observe and measure from the outside, like brain scans or behavioral tests—anything you could do without being inside someone else's head.
phenomenal properties(Used in the context of higher-order thought theory to refer to properties whose presence is explained by higher-order representations)
The qualitative, 'what-it-is-like' features of conscious experience that characterize how perceptual states feel to the subject