The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.

I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves.

A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place.