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by Kim_Bruning 65 days ago
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.

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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.

[It can be done. But it'll be dirty]

What exactly is the "you" in your sentence?