Hofstadter, Dennett - The Mind's I

An Epistemological Nightmare 429authority. If Chase passed Sanborn's tests and Sanborn passed Chase's, each would havedoubt cast on his account-if such tests have any bearing at all on the issue.Another way of putting the point is that the price you pay for the possibility ofconfirming your authority is the outside chance of being discredited. "I know what Ilike," we are all prepared to insist, "and I know what it's like to be me!" Probably you do,at least about some matters, but that is something to be checked in performance. Maybe,just maybe, you'll discover that you really don't know as much as you thoughtyou did about what it is like to be you.D.C.D.