RichardKennaway comments on The raw-experience dogma: Dissolving the “qualia” problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 September 2012 01:23:49PM 1 point [-]

If someone offered me a pill that would merely reduce my qualia experience of pain I would take it

Morphine is said to have this effect. Some people who have been prescribed it for pain say that they still feel the pain but it doesn't hurt. But it's illegal in most places except for bona fide medical purposes.