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> I don't have a subjective first person experience. Everything you mentioned after this were mechanisms, however inefficient or poorly documented, that suppor

> I don't have a subjective first person experience. Everything you mentioned after this were mechanisms, however inefficient or poorly documented, that support your functioning day-to-day and are practically irrelevant for supporting your argument that you don't have a subjective first person experience. If you explained those mechanisms and "documented" them then all you would be doing is explaining one way your consciousness is fed data whilst still leaving the original question on the table. At the heart of what constitutes you as an "I" is someone who can experience eating chocolate or taking a warm shower. There is a you that feels what it is like to do these activities.

a1369209993 8y ago
> There is a you that feels what it is like to do these activities. Indeed there is; it's a collection of information made out bits, stored on a substrate made out of atoms[0]. There's nothing subjective about it. "What/why is subjective experience" is a wrong question[1]. Much like "what's before the big bang" (or, more mundanely, "whats north of the north pole") the 'answer' is that (unless we're manifestly wrong about the observable behavior of the universe) the question doesn't even correspond to any feature of reality in the first place. 0: and photons, loose electrons and ions, electomagnetic fields, and miscellaneous other such junk; ask a physicist if you really care. 1: http://lesswrong.com/lw/og/wrong_questions/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/og/wrong_questions/ is the least awful explanation of this problem that I've found.