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- noun
phenomenology of theother - noun method of studying the consciousness of other people
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Examples
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Stuff like heterophenomenology is simply not helpful.
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This process culminates with the monstrosity known as “heterophenomenology.”
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The trouble is that the objective scientific method I describe (under the alarming name of heterophenomenology) is nothing I invented; it is in fact exactly the method tacitly endorsed and relied upon by every scientist working on consciousness, including Crick, Edelman, and Rosenfield.
'The Mystery of Consciousness': An Exchange Dennett, Daniel C. 1995
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Dennett offers a scientific approach to experience, heterophenomenology, in which we take people’s claims as evidence, not as privileged, inerrant, epistemological access to those experiences.
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