 The first-person condition: Introspection is a process that generates, or is aimed at generating, knowledge, judgments, or beliefs about one’s own mind only and no one else’s, at least not directly. Any process that in a similar manner generates knowledge of one’s own and others’ minds is by that token not an introspective process. (Some philosophers have contemplated peculiar or science fiction cases in which we might introspect the contents of others’ minds directly—for example in telepathy or when two people’s brains are directly wired together—but the proper interpretation of such cases is disputable see, e.g., Gertler 2000.)