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estearumyesterday at 3:25 PM0 repliesview on HN

Again, I didn't say anything about "objectively real" anything.

Your knowledge of consciousness existing within you is inherently subjective. And yet it's the truest thing any one of us can possibly know (per your point, a simple molecule ingested by mouth can distort nearly everything except the fact of consciousness). No matter how distorted the external/internal data that populates consciousness, the backdrop of consciousness is certainly there.

And no, I mean Nagel, not Hegel.