introspectability

The quality of being subject to introspection.

This shows, I think, that sensitivity to the argument from soft introspectability is an untenable halfway house; we must accept strict introspectability or nothing.

Besides the open question of the full introspectability of arbitrary application code, there is another mental obstacle: conventional programmers consider that dynamic symbolic models are mere gadget applications, “too slow and not professional" but this situation could change with the maturity of web-based scripting (like wikis, active technology, ...).

The quality of being subject to introspection.

Introspectability cannot be the mark of the mental because one can introspect physical states, like indigestion or other internal physical events in the body.

Moreover, everyone will now accept that some aspects of our mental lives aren't even accessible to introspection. So transparent-access theorists need to provide an account o the distingction between those mental events that are, in principle, transparently accessible and those that are not. In effect, they need to provide us with a criterion of introspectability.