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I think for the most part we're remarkably adept at not noticing what's going on with our own experience. If you stop to notice how you recognize that you had t

• naasking 9y ago
  Instead, I think we're remarkably adept at thinking we know what's going on with our experience. Our brains are constantly filling in the holes of perception and memory with reasonable falsehoods that are readily accepted. This is a documented fact with overwhelming evidence, so on that basis alone I would be skeptical that you know you are conscious and what that means. Ultimately, either your meaning of "subjectivity" can be captured by an objective description, in which case you and I agree on the nature of subjectivity, or it cannot be so captured and you agree with the meaning of subjectivity in the philosophy of mind. Finally, the mechanics of metacognition merely require an additional level of indirection, no magical secret sauce like subjectivity is required. We can even perform metalogical reasoning of a similar sort within basic formal systems like arithmetic via embeddings. I don't know why you think a whole new category of cognition is necessary.