https://claude.ai/chat/ced6d215-c4e6-42f5-be6d-f7853d2e07fc What makes the meta-inferential account of [[introspection]] interesting is that it applies this same principle recursively: during [[introspection]], your own perceptual experiences themselves become the "hidden causes" that your higher-order cognitive processes are trying to infer or understand. Instead of asking "what external object caused this sensory input?", you're asking "what internal [[mental state]] caused me to have this experience?"