There is something I am having that I label “subjective experience.” I value this thing in myself and others. That I can’t completely specify it doesn’t matter much, I can’t fully specify most of my values.
I didn’t suggest you were the only one having a subjective experience. I suggested that what you -label- a subjective experience may not be experienced by others.
Are you seeing the same red I am? Maybe. That doesn’t stop us from using a common label to refer to an objective phenomenon.
Similarly, whatever similarities you think you share with other people may be the product of a common label referring to an objective phenomenon, experienced subjectively differently. And that can include subjective existence. The qualities of subjective existence you value are not necessarily present in every possible subjective existence.
There is something I am having that I label “subjective experience.” I value this thing in myself and others. That I can’t completely specify it doesn’t matter much, I can’t fully specify most of my values.
You can’t even tell whether or not others have this thing that you label subjective experience. Are you sure you value it in others?
The world in which I am the only being having a subjective experience and everyone else is a p-zombie is ridiculously unlikely.
I didn’t suggest you were the only one having a subjective experience. I suggested that what you -label- a subjective experience may not be experienced by others.
Are you seeing the same red I am? Maybe. That doesn’t stop us from using a common label to refer to an objective phenomenon.
Similarly, whatever similarities you think you share with other people may be the product of a common label referring to an objective phenomenon, experienced subjectively differently. And that can include subjective existence. The qualities of subjective existence you value are not necessarily present in every possible subjective existence.
And when it results in predictions of different futures I’ll care.