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There Are Ways In Which You Can Make That Distinction Objective To A Certain Degree. For Example, By Looking At Responses That Could Be Generated In The Brain To Exactly The Same Stimulus And There Could Be Differences There.

Some Of Us, For Better Or Worse, Develop Very Stable, Consistent, And Largely Predictable Machineries Of Self. But In Others, The Self Machinery Is More Flexible And More Open To Unexpected Turns.

You Know, Mind Allows Us To Portray In Different Sensory Modalities, Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, You Name It, What We Are Like And What The World Is Like. But This Very, Very Important Quality Of Subjectivity, This Quality That Allows Us To Take A Distant View And Say, "i Am Here, I Exist, I Have A Life And There Are Things Around Me That Refer To Me." That Me-ness, M-e-hyphen, That Is What Really Constitutes Consciousness.

If You Have Just An Emotion, You Would Not Necessarily Feel It. To Feel An Emotion, You Need To Represent In The Brain In Structures That Are Actually Different From The Structures That Lead To The Emotion, What Is Going On In The Organs When You're Having The Emotion.

Narratives Are Not Fixed. We Change Our Narratives For Ourselves And We Change Them Not Necessarily Deliberately. In Other Words, Some People Do, Some People Will Constantly Reconstruct Their Biography For External Purposes, It's A Very Interesting Political Ploy.