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The speaker describes thought as reflexive pointer manipulation rather than felt experience, and says that what feels like something is perceptual.

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“A thought is more like a pointer manipulation. It's reflexive. It's not the actual thing that feels like something. The thing that feels like something to me is perceptual.”
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