"No supervisor can know everything that all its agents do." This is why our internal mental workings are not conscious. One approach to simplifying is to focus on specific aspects ("frozen phenomena"). Can the mind do this too? yes -- using (incomplete) memory to reinstate mental states.
"We've now seen several reason why we cannot simply watch our minds by sitting still and waiting till our vision clears. The only course left for us is to study the mind the way scientists do when something is too large or to small to see -- by building theories based on evidence." In other words, introspection only works wehn a well-designed (self) experiment has been performed.
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