so the relationship between experience and consciousness is kind of weird. most obvious example: I get drunk, black out and do something stupid. I wake up with no recollection, no conscious memory of it. did I Really experience it in the given sense? how conscious was I?
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i.e. the "things" i am experiencing are sense impressions, i am not "experiencing" a Coke can, i'm experiencing a visual pattern and tactile pressure/temperature/texture information and cognitive reprocessing artifacts off of those
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id argue subjectivity requires more than just memory, it requires a notion of selfhood, a subject and the colloquial usage of experience seems like either attention-to-perception (implying pattern/thing recognition) or else narrative self-insertion which implies a subject
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i don't think it does, i think experience comes first and we learn actually much, much later to assign those experiences to a persona-identity-history those things may be implied by the usage, yeah, which is a reason why the usage is a halfassed tool to use to point to the thing
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