All this is of course very speculative but couldn’t you just reduce mind-states into sub-mind-states? If you look at split brain patients, where you have cut off corpus callosum, the two hemispheres behave/report in some situations as if they were two different people, it seems (at least to me) that there does not seem to be such irreducible quanta as “brain-states” either. My point is that you could make the same argument:
It’s not fundamentally important whether or not two given sub-mind-states are connected by a mind state. All that matters is the sub-mind-states.
It seems to me that my qualia are all experienced together, or at least the ones that I’m aware of. As such, there is more than just sub-mind-states. There is a fundamental difference. For what it’s worth, I don’t consider this difference morally relevant, but it’s there.
All this is of course very speculative but couldn’t you just reduce mind-states into sub-mind-states? If you look at split brain patients, where you have cut off corpus callosum, the two hemispheres behave/report in some situations as if they were two different people, it seems (at least to me) that there does not seem to be such irreducible quanta as “brain-states” either. My point is that you could make the same argument:
It’s not fundamentally important whether or not two given sub-mind-states are connected by a mind state. All that matters is the sub-mind-states.
It seems to me that my qualia are all experienced together, or at least the ones that I’m aware of. As such, there is more than just sub-mind-states. There is a fundamental difference. For what it’s worth, I don’t consider this difference morally relevant, but it’s there.