While the variety of answers is indeed surprising, I think many of them could be read as different accounts of a single central intuition, so that we’d end up with ~7 deep interpretations instead of 17 different answers.
For example, I think all of the following can be understood as different accounts of the “there being something that it feels like to be me”, or “experiencing the Cartesian theatre”:
experience of distinctive affective states, proprioception, awakeness, and maybe mind-location
While the variety of answers is indeed surprising, I think many of them could be read as different accounts of a single central intuition, so that we’d end up with ~7 deep interpretations instead of 17 different answers.
For example, I think all of the following can be understood as different accounts of the “there being something that it feels like to be me”, or “experiencing the Cartesian theatre”: