Let me rephrase: do you know at the moment that your subjective experience became more vivid, even if you can’t express it verbally? If you know, then it is self-reflection. System knowing its onw internal state is self-reflecting, in a sense that Eliezer uses this concept.
On “checking yourself”: I’d say that I’m lifelong meditator and Eliezer claims make an awful lot of sense to me?
We also did this one on Twitter, I think there’s two kinds of “self-reflection” being discussed here (the low-level self-reflective nature of the phenomenal fields as well as high-level self-reflective cognition) and despite his imprecise wording if you read Eliezer’s Facebook post I think it’s pretty clear he’s talking about the latter – or else he wouldn’t be discounting pig qualia.
Anyway, if I was to hypothetically take a quarter gram of psilocybin mushrooms and watch my experience get more vivid, I’d be using the former type of self-reflection to observe this in the moment, but I may or may not need to lean on the latter type in order to report this verbally.
Let me rephrase: do you know at the moment that your subjective experience became more vivid, even if you can’t express it verbally? If you know, then it is self-reflection. System knowing its onw internal state is self-reflecting, in a sense that Eliezer uses this concept.
On “checking yourself”: I’d say that I’m lifelong meditator and Eliezer claims make an awful lot of sense to me?
We also did this one on Twitter, I think there’s two kinds of “self-reflection” being discussed here (the low-level self-reflective nature of the phenomenal fields as well as high-level self-reflective cognition) and despite his imprecise wording if you read Eliezer’s Facebook post I think it’s pretty clear he’s talking about the latter – or else he wouldn’t be discounting pig qualia.
Anyway, if I was to hypothetically take a quarter gram of psilocybin mushrooms and watch my experience get more vivid, I’d be using the former type of self-reflection to observe this in the moment, but I may or may not need to lean on the latter type in order to report this verbally.