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by in-silico 59 days ago
I'm curious about your doubting your own consciousness statement, given that "we humans are conscious" is pretty axiomic to its definition and one of the few pieces that most agree with.
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Take a look at Daniel Dennett, for starters!

If you're looking for one of the genuine angles on this:

Consciousness is horrendously under-defined, to the point some people go something like "you know, at this point I figure we'd be better off not having this word at all. "

Some days that's me, with a headache.

So it's more of a semantic argument than an actual rejection of the idea that you experience qualia/sentience/something?
Dennett's whole thing is the rejection of qualia. See https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DennettQuiningQualia1988...
You'd have to define those terms operationally first, somehow, before I could give you an honest reply. Most people can't -and those who do disagree- which suggests something structural.

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What exactly is the "you" in your sentence?