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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.

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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.

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