I once had an epiphany that pushed me from fully in Camp #2 intellectually rather strongly towards Camp #1. I hadn’t heard about illusionism before, so it was quite a thing. Since then, I’ve devised probably dozens of inner thought experiments/arguments that imho +- proof Camp #1 to be onto something, and that support the hypothesis that qualia can be a bit less special than we make them to be despite how impossible that may seem. So I’m intellectually quite invested in Camp #1 view.
Meanwhile, my experience has definitely not changed, my day-to-day me is exactly what it always was, so in that sense definitely “experience” qualia just like anyone.
Moreover, it is just as hard as ever before to take my intellectual belief that our ‘qualia’ might be a bit less absolutely special than we make it to be, seriously in day-to-day life. I.e. emotionally, I’m still +- 100% in Camp #2, and I guess I might be in a rather similar situation
I once had an epiphany that pushed me from fully in Camp #2 intellectually rather strongly towards Camp #1. I hadn’t heard about illusionism before, so it was quite a thing. Since then, I’ve devised probably dozens of inner thought experiments/arguments that imho +- proof Camp #1 to be onto something, and that support the hypothesis that qualia can be a bit less special than we make them to be despite how impossible that may seem. So I’m intellectually quite invested in Camp #1 view.
Meanwhile, my experience has definitely not changed, my day-to-day me is exactly what it always was, so in that sense definitely “experience” qualia just like anyone.
Moreover, it is just as hard as ever before to take my intellectual belief that our ‘qualia’ might be a bit less absolutely special than we make it to be, seriously in day-to-day life. I.e. emotionally, I’m still +- 100% in Camp #2, and I guess I might be in a rather similar situation