As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.

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

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.