Introspection 3 {ReadingNotesBeingNoOne}

Introspection₃ ("inward attention" and "inner perception"). This is a subsymbolic metarepresentation operating on a preexisting, coherent self-model (for the notion of a "self-model" see Metzinger 1993/1999, 2000c). This type of introspective experience is generated by processes of phenomenal representation, which direct attention toward certain aspects of an internal system state, the intentional content of which is being constituted by a part of the world depicted as internal.

• The phenomenology of this class of states is what in everyday life we call "inward-directed attention". On the level of philosophical theory this kind of phenomenally experienced introspection that underlies classical theories of innner perception, for example, in John Locke or Franz Brentano (see Guzeldere 1995 for a recent critical discussion).