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by in-silico 63 days ago
So it's more of a semantic argument than an actual rejection of the idea that you experience qualia/sentience/something?
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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?