The objective measures? Primarily, the change in response to a cue thought, and the experience of surprise. A person who isn’t surprised at least sometimes by their introspection isn’t obtaining any new information, and a person whose behavior doesn’t change in ways that surprise them hasn’t changed their spontaneous behavior. A lack of change in autonomous responses to a stimulus is likewise an indication that no actual self-modification has occurred.
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The objective measures? Primarily, the change in response to a cue thought, and the experience of surprise. A person who isn’t surprised at least sometimes by their introspection isn’t obtaining any new information, and a person whose behavior doesn’t change in ways that surprise them hasn’t changed their spontaneous behavior. A lack of change in autonomous responses to a stimulus is likewise an indication that no actual self-modification has occurred.