This might be an artifact of how we talk about them. We discuss them as things happening to subjects, but can there be just pain without a subject to experience pain? Can it be argued that in the end of the day we define the borders subject itself through the qualia?
I don't think anyone is arguing against usefulness of an heuristics concept of self. It's seems like we are predisposed to the this kind of thing which might make a fair bit of evolutionary sense.
Qualia are just qualia. They are not movies that need someone to watch them. They are just instances of subjective experience.
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This might be an artifact of how we talk about them. We discuss them as things happening to subjects, but can there be just pain without a subject to experience pain? Can it be argued that in the end of the day we define the borders subject itself through the qualia?
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I don't think anyone is arguing against usefulness of an heuristics concept of self. It's seems like we are predisposed to the this kind of thing which might make a fair bit of evolutionary sense.
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