Subjective experience
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Nagel asked what it is like to be a bat and no third-person description answers it
The pen-in-the-teeth studies said the face tells the mind what it feels and the replications were unkind
Self-observation is not neutral because the observer and the observed are the same system
Is your red the same as my red is less a deep question than one that cannot be tested even in principle
A pain score from zero to ten is a private state translated into a public number and the translation loses most of it
First-person authority says you cannot be wrong about your own experience and clinical practice keeps contradicting it
Descartes put a thinker behind every thought and four centuries of looking for that thinker have not gone well
Whether the self is substance or process changes what you think remorse is actually for
Phenomenology brackets the assumption that the world is really there and then describes what is left
In the moment people report one thing and in retrospect they report the peak and the ending
The narrator in your head is a compression of your experience and not a transcript
Is the self a substance or a bundle or a process or a story and has any fifth option ever held?
Neuroscience finds no single place where the self lives and that refutes a version of Descartes nobody defends
Do most people actually have a constant internal monologue or is that a minority experience?
Buddhist anatta and the neuroscience of no-self get quoted together while arguing about different things
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