Question

How could introspection - reporting on one's inner thoughts - be inaccurate? Could I be wrong about what I'm thinking?

Answer 1

so i think with lovely,carry words - but this is just my opinion

Answer 2

According to me, yes indeed. Because we can report only about our conscious, not about our un-conscious. We are not really able alone to dig into our inner self, because who knows what's there :)

Answer 3

A PERSON IS BEST PERSON ON THIS PLANET WHEN HE / SHE IS SLEEPING FREE FROM ALL WISHES. AS SOON AS HE/SHE WAKES UP THE TYPICAL HUMAN MIND STARTS OPERATING AND PERSON STARTS SELF-TALK.................

Answer 4

Yeah I guess most of our thoughts remain opaque to our consciousness :(

Answer 5

why the long face? It might be positive under some point of views :).

Answer 6

I want to understand the mind so I can build intelligent computers

Answer 7

Then maybe someday, I could have... a robot girlfriend!

Answer 8

oh well, that's quite an interesting topic, but you'd have to throw away the whole Von Neumann's architecture. :)

Answer 9

why?

Answer 10

it's not suited for real AI? :(

Answer 11

Because if you want to reproduce human behaviour, I think, you will need an associative method.
While the Von Neumann's architecture is suited for grab this "memory" from this specific address in that specific register of RAM.

Answer 12

So the Von Neumann is fine if I want to build AIs that play chess or search the web or recognize speech/language patterns, but bad if I want to build a robot girlfriend?

Answer 13

That's my opinion, or that's what I got from studying the Von Neumann's architecture.
You might have heard of the new function the iPhone 4s has, I think it's called Siri. Yes it answers you, it even says different things at times, but is it smart? Is it able to CREATE by itself new complex and right answers? Nope... not yet at least, I dunno if someone one day will make it. Probably, yes, but not for the next 50 years, my best guess.