Conscious Experience

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    “fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism.”
    —Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)

    “I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn’t love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country ...”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 10 (1962)