Lets say you’re having a subjective experience. Say, being stung by a wasp. How do you know? Right. You have to have to be a ware of yourself, and your skin, and have pain receptors, and blah blah blah.
But if you couldn’t feel the pain, let’s say because you were numb, you would still feel conscious. And if you were infected with a virus that made a wasp sting feel sugary and purple, rather than itchy and painful, you would also still be conscious.
It’s only when you don’t have a model of yourself that consciousness becomes impossible.
It’s only when you don’t have a model of yourself that consciousness becomes impossible.
That doesn’t mean they’re the same thing. Unless you define them to mean the same thing. But as I described above, not everyone does that. There is no “Hard Problem of Modeling Yourself”.
Lets say you’re having a subjective experience. Say, being stung by a wasp. How do you know? Right. You have to have to be a ware of yourself, and your skin, and have pain receptors, and blah blah blah.
But if you couldn’t feel the pain, let’s say because you were numb, you would still feel conscious. And if you were infected with a virus that made a wasp sting feel sugary and purple, rather than itchy and painful, you would also still be conscious.
It’s only when you don’t have a model of yourself that consciousness becomes impossible.
That doesn’t mean they’re the same thing. Unless you define them to mean the same thing. But as I described above, not everyone does that. There is no “Hard Problem of Modeling Yourself”.