extraspect

present singular third person extraspects · participle present extraspecting · participle past extraspected · past extraspected

1. To observe or perceive sensory stimuli, as opposed to internal states.

   The mental is indeed introspected, but the brain is in fact extraspected; we see it in the mirror.

   2019, Eric P. Polten, Critique of the Psycho-Physical Identity Theory, page 198

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   To extraspect what is going on in people's minds bears various dissemblances from observing what is going on in the world of material objects.

   1963, Margaret Chatterjee, Our Knowledge of Other Selves, page 108

   Considered as a theory of introspection, the view which Charlie was expounding in 'Low Claim Assertions' and which I incorporated into my refutation of the phenomenological fallacy in 'Is Consciousness a Brain Process?', may be described as 'the linguistic by-product theory of introspection', the view according to which the ability to introspect and construct introspective reports on one's own private experiences develops as a by-product of the ability to 'extraspect' and describe that aspect of the public world which is currently impinging on one's sense organs.

   2013, J. Heil, Cause, Mind, and Reality: Essays Honoring C.B. Martin, page 132