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For you to perceive your thoughts doesn't require different properties to other people's thoughts. Just different values to common properties.

It's not clear why you would expect this to be inherently different from any other neurological response. For example, if I stub my toe, are you suggesting that science doesn't have an answer to why you don't feel it?

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I am suggesting that the fact that I (the perceiving subject) am myself (the biological entity) rather than you (a different biological entity, but ostensibly subject to the same laws) is (a) an objective fact (b) not within the domain of science. I do not expect this fact to map to any observable physical properties.

It's because the thing generating the thoughts (you) is coupled to the thing perceiving the thoughts (you) via pathways that can carry the information. I, however, am not connected to that thing (you) via equivalent pathways.

I am, as luck would have it, connected in a more or less identical fashion to the thing creating my thoughts (me).

Physics is ok with all of that.

(b) not within the current domain of science.

There's no current evidence that it is fundamentally outside that domain.

If I turn the light on in my closet with the door closed, can anyone explain why you can't see it?

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