ABSTRACT
Thinking and acting are always accompanied by subjective experience. We do not only do something, but we always also experience it in a certain manner. We experience emotions like joy, pride, or anger while pursuing a goal; we experience problems while performing a task; we experience—wanted or unwanted—metacognitions during enacting a behavior; we experience ourselves as “objects” from an outside observer perspective in some situations. Sometimes our subjective experience lies in the focus of our attention, for instance, when we reflect on it. Sometimes it may be a background phenomenon and its possible influence is largely unnoticed. Sometimes we may consciously use our subjective experience as information; sometimes we may implicitly use it without being aware of this process.
