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“Feeling” is disconnected from reality, it’s whatever you perceive it as. Like morality, you can’t disprove someone’s definition of feeling, you can only disagree with it.

If scientists invent a way to measure “feeling” that states 20% of people don’t feel, including those otherwise indistinguishable from feeling ones, most people would disagree with the measurement. Similarly, most people would disagree that a printer that prints “baby don’t hurt me” is truly in pain.




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