Table 1.
A change of personality concept to integrate the subject's experiential mode of information processing.
| (1) Classical dual concept of personality posits two information processing systems in humans: a rationale and an experiential one. |
| (2) The dilemma of classical cognitive science is: Subjective experience is not accessible to other observers whereas perception of objects and processes are accessible. |
| (3) The subject exhibits two modes of consciousness: a non-reflective (i.e., a 1st first person perspective) and a reflective (i.e., a 3rd person perspective, ownership of experience). |
| (4) A probabilistic model posits: the metaphysical self (“I,” the subject of experience) vs. the phenomenal self (“me,” the object of experience). |
| (5) A practical approach for a science of consciousness: exact describing the phenomenal-self according to a reflective, methodically guided phenomenological analysis. |
| (6) Mindfulness and believing interact with living experience and are mutually antagonistic (principle of subjective detachment vs. principle of subjective evaluation). |
| (7) Here the objectives of the assessment of mental processes are: to differentiate between the manifestations and mechanisms of unconscious EES, conscious EPS and NS. |