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Phil 490: Consciousness and the Self Handout [12] Alex Byrne: Introspection Professor JeeLoo Liu Byrne’s Theses: 1. There is a mechanism for detecting one’s mental states but in an important respect it does not “resemble perception.” (There is an inner mechanism for detecting one’s beliefs. The mechanism comes with our capacity for reasoning about the external world — there is no inner eye.) 2. Claim of Transparency (in the case of…

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