[ExI] Subjective/Objective

[Jason Resch]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2026, 7:12 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 08/07/2026 04:14, Jason Resch wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2026, 1:48 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> >     Can an external party, even in principle, know for sure what someone
> else is experiencing?
> >
> >
> > I think it is a tautology that one can never know exactly what it's like
> to be another, unless one's mental state is identical with another.
> >
> > A "conscious state" represents everything that an entity directly
> knows/apprehends at a particular point in time. It is the totality of their
> awareness. It is in a very real sense, the only thing they know (at least
> at that point in time). Since it is the only thing one knowa, one can know
> no else. So Alice in conscious state A cannot know what it's like to be Bob
> in conscious state B, since Alice only knows A, she cannot know B.
>
>
> That sums it up much more concisely and probably more accurately than I
> did!
>


Thank you. I appreciate that!

Jason

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