I’m not talking about access consciousness here. I’m not talking about the ability to report. I’m talking about phenomenal consciousness.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I predict you’re going to say “there’s no difference”, or “there’s nothing to consciousness besides reporting” or something, which is a position I have sympathy for and is closely related to the I talk about at the end of the post. But reporting is not what I’m talking about here.
What I’m going to say is that I really do mean phenomenal consciousness. The person who turns off the alarm not realizing it’s an alarm, poking at the loud thing without understanding it, is already so different from my waking self. And those are just the ones that I remember—the shape of the middle of the distribution implies the existence of an unremembered tail of the distribution.
If I’m sleeping dreamlessly, and take a reflexive action such as getting goosebumps, am I having a kinesthetic experience? If you say yes here, then perhaps there is no mystery and you just use ‘experience’ idiosyncratically.
I’m not talking about access consciousness here. I’m not talking about the ability to report. I’m talking about phenomenal consciousness.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I predict you’re going to say “there’s no difference”, or “there’s nothing to consciousness besides reporting” or something, which is a position I have sympathy for and is closely related to the I talk about at the end of the post. But reporting is not what I’m talking about here.
What I’m going to say is that I really do mean phenomenal consciousness. The person who turns off the alarm not realizing it’s an alarm, poking at the loud thing without understanding it, is already so different from my waking self. And those are just the ones that I remember—the shape of the middle of the distribution implies the existence of an unremembered tail of the distribution.
If I’m sleeping dreamlessly, and take a reflexive action such as getting goosebumps, am I having a kinesthetic experience? If you say yes here, then perhaps there is no mystery and you just use ‘experience’ idiosyncratically.