People can attend to, learn, perceive, or remember {reporting}| organisms, objects, features, times, and locations. People can make verbal or non-verbal objective reports about subjective experience, during or after experience. Reports are about perceptions, memories, imaginings, beliefs, cognitive states, higher-order thoughts, mental events, mental states, and phrastic meanings. Reporting requires former sensation, perception, memory, and awareness. People cannot report unconscious thoughts or perceptions. Reports about sensations indicate that most people's experiences are similar. Only humans can report using complete language, but all mammals can communicate.
types
People can report their feelings, and judge emotion reports, objectively [Hare, 1952] [Hare, 1981].
People have private stimuli and responses, only inside themselves and not observable by others. Private stimuli and responses are like reports to oneself {verbal report}. People learn to be self-aware by verbal reports [Skinner, 1938] [Skinner, 1953] [Skinner, 1957].
properties
People can report only some conscious thoughts and perceptions.
People do not express thoughts {unexpressed thought} about which they have no intention to report.
Reports are objective and verifiable, allowing scientific analysis and theories.
criticism
Methods similar to literary criticism can analyze reports about consciousness. Criticism can use only actual words, only actual work, emotional reactions, feelings, history, meaning, objective standards, other works, personal viewpoint, principles, relativity, true wording, and theory.
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