"Poets, musicians, or artists might arguably be able to get at it, through some indirect means." It's worth being explicit that poets can only even attempt to

"Poets, musicians, or artists might arguably be able to get at it, through some indirect means." It's worth being explicit that poets can only even attempt to communicate these things to other humans, since human consciousnesses share a very large common base of properties. Similarly, affection is something most mammals [seem to] experience, but only because we've had a common number of millions of years of evolution, meaning that our brains are built to follow the same patterns; affection is not logically entailed by consciousness any more than the sensation of "red" is.