The present paper analyses synesthesia in autism (ASD) and neurotypical experience. The way synesthesia has been interpreted within the history of phenomenology and psychopathology should prepare a philosophical access to autism and its subjective condition. The paper draws on the basic assumption that synesthesia reveals the presence of sensible networks and crossmodal connections beneath the...
If the inner consciousness of a mental state is a part of the mental state itself, then one is forced to admit an ‚inner consciousness of the inner consciousness‘. This counterintuitive consequence can however be avoided, if we conceive of the inner consc