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I don’t have subjective experience; the subjective experience has me

Xiaoyang Yu

preprint DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/qmp8k (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper
Key points Argues that subjective experience is the 'soup' of classical conditionings or symbols/meanings/information, and that one cannot know whether others have subjective experience.

Abstract

The subjective experience is the “soup” of classical conditionings, or the “soup” of symbols/ meanings/information. I can never know whether other people have subjective experience. I don’t have subjective experience. On contrast, all the meanings belong to the subjective experience.