Nisan comments on There just has to be something more, you know? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nisan 24 March 2010 08:01:49PM 5 points [-]

The decomposability or granularity of experience may be illusory. (This is the first point in taiyo's comment.) But even if one can sensibly pick out a tiny piece of one's experience, I don't expect it to be an electron.

Analogously, the tiny piece of my computer's function that makes the cursor blink at a steady rate is definitely a physical process, but it's not an electron.