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Unluckily, that means all of us. Contemporary neuroscience tells us the experiences of the two are indistinguishable.

• MrMcCall 2y ago
  We are the information processors of the universe and have special abilities with respect to understanding the truth of a given situation. Those abilities, however, do have a development curve that is aligned with how we have chosen to morally develop ourself. Moral development is optional -- obviously -- thus most of our fellows do not have the ability to just "know". The prerequisite for gaining access to such direct knowledge is to first learn how to say, "I don't know." Humility is an essential, albeit fairly rare, life skill, and is related to a person's truthfulness. Most people say, for example, that their not having a specific ability means that no one has that ability. Humility is also the key to understanding the Dunning-Kruger result, but few grok that depth of meaning from that seminal study. An example of neuroscience's lack of understanding is Stanford's mostly-brilliant Dr. Robert Sapolsky, who is a leading expert on the neuroscience of stress, yet claims that we don't have free will. That's just silly, but I will always relay his teachings (from his Human Behavioral Biology course) about trans folks having areas of their brain with the opposite structures to their genitals' gender. Those sexually dimorphic areas of the brain could very much lead them to "feel" different to their genitals' gender. [Side note: Suzie (Eddie) Izzard is one of my top 5 brilliant comedians.] Please note, also, that we are fully free to choose to believe what we want to consider true. That's why there are both flat-Earthers and telescopic pictures showing rotating planets, in the same universe.