Are There Islands of Awareness? And when would they instantiate a phenomenal self-model, creating the capacity for suffering? Externalism is dead and new ethical issues arise.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223619302164 …
Interesting paper. Not being expert, I would hypothesize that trauma-induced dissociations might result in such islands (seen only after the split ceases to be 100%): input none, output subliminally poisoning the brain through the suffering-producing loop. ... ?