To extraspect what is going on in people's minds bears various dissemblances from observing what is going on in the world of material objects.
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Considered as a theory of introspection, the view which Charlie was expounding in 'Low Claim Assertions' and which I incorporated into my refutation of the phenomenological fallacy in 'Is Consciousness a Brain Process?', may be described as 'the linguistic by-product theory of introspection', the view according to which the ability to introspect and construct introspective reports on one's own private experiences develops as a by-product of the ability to 'extraspect' and describe that aspect of the public world which is currently impinging on one's sense organs.
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The mental is indeed introspected, but the brain is in fact extraspected; we see it in the mirror.
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