examachine comments on Human consciousness as a tractable scientific problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: examachine 14 January 2012 04:34:48PM 0 points [-]

Subjective experience isn't limited to sensory experience, a headache, or any feeling, like happiness, without any sensory reason, would also count. The idea is that you can trace most of those to electrical/biochemical states. Might be why some drugs can make you feel happy and how anesthetics work!