# Introspection **Entity class:** Cognitive process **Domain:** Cognitive science / Self-knowledge **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Introspection is the examination or reporting of one's own thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and mental processes. ## Mechanism and significance It supplies privileged first-person evidence while remaining vulnerable to confabulation, limited access, framing, and mistaken theories about the mechanisms producing experience. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems|Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems]] - **Primary fields:** [[Self-Reflection]] · [[Neural Decoding]] · [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[The Maze]] · [[Bicameral Mind]] · [[Self-Knowledge]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Historical, scientific, fictional, and philosophical uses remain distinguishable; the node does not turn analogy or narrative architecture into empirical proof.