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Let’s play a language game where we use language in a representative way. Specifically the language can only represent parts of sense-impressions.

Where is consciousness in one of my sense-impressions? Tell me a procedure that will allow me to locate the thing you want to call “consciousness” in one of my sense-impressions.

Maybe OP wants to ask, “What are sense impressions made of?”. But that’s incoherent in this language game because sense impressions are themselves not objects in sense impressions.



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