There’s something it’s like for me to see the green leaves outside my window right now, so that’s a conscious state to me. But there may be some unco… - Sam Harris

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There’s something it’s like for me to see the green leaves outside my window right now, so that’s a conscious state to me. But there may be some unconscious language-processing going on in my head that doesn’t feel like anything to me, or some motor processes in the cerebellum. Those might be states of me, but they’re not conscious states of me, because there’s nothing it’s like for me to undergo those states.