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My point is that one can know something about the content of one's own subjective experience, and how it changes. Knowing about someone else's subject experience is a much taller order. So far people seem to learn about it by assuming that others are much like themselves, and then asking them details to get a better picture by successive approximation. It seems we're stuck with examining responses to qualia, at least for now.


One can also do some fairly objective studies of subjective experience. See for example, Robert Ornstein's book On the Experiencce of Time http://www.amazon.com/Experience-Time-Robert-E-Ornstein/dp/0...




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