We can think of the self as the first person model of one’s own agency, and awareness as the ability to recognise one’s self and relation to the world, and a model as a representation of some aspect of the world. In this context insight seems to reflect the extent to which one is awareness the *predictive value* of one’s self model and t…
We can think of the self as the first person model of one’s own agency, and awareness as the ability to recognise one’s self and relation to the world, and a model as a representation of some aspect of the world. In this context insight seems to reflect the extent to which one is awareness the *predictive value* of one’s self model and their ability to adjust their model based on error signals. Then you can see there are multiple different components that break down. For instance one could be highly self aware of the error signals they receive but misattribute them as in OCD. Another may not have awareness of the error signals at all and thereby continue with a model that has poor predictive value and be continually perplexed and likely distressed. Others may overfit and make new models to account for the errors. All of these are different ways in which insight can break down and would entail different approaches within that system to assist the person. But the question is from whose perspective to we judge the validity of the model and if it’s shared social reality it doesn’t necessarily follow this has the best predictive value.
We can think of the self as the first person model of one’s own agency, and awareness as the ability to recognise one’s self and relation to the world, and a model as a representation of some aspect of the world. In this context insight seems to reflect the extent to which one is awareness the *predictive value* of one’s self model and their ability to adjust their model based on error signals. Then you can see there are multiple different components that break down. For instance one could be highly self aware of the error signals they receive but misattribute them as in OCD. Another may not have awareness of the error signals at all and thereby continue with a model that has poor predictive value and be continually perplexed and likely distressed. Others may overfit and make new models to account for the errors. All of these are different ways in which insight can break down and would entail different approaches within that system to assist the person. But the question is from whose perspective to we judge the validity of the model and if it’s shared social reality it doesn’t necessarily follow this has the best predictive value.