When one undergoes "ego death", experience doesn't necessarily disappear. Mental boundaries between self and other might, but unless one is completely comatose, there still remains the sensation of being, for lack of a better word.
It's not so difficult to induce "oneness with the universe", or even total withdrawal from it (as with dissociatives), but nobody has the slightest clue why any portion of the universe (or all of it, depending who you ask) should feel like anything. That's where the hard problem is, I think.
Are you saying qualia don't exist, as per some interpretations of Dennett?
It's not so difficult to induce "oneness with the universe", or even total withdrawal from it (as with dissociatives), but nobody has the slightest clue why any portion of the universe (or all of it, depending who you ask) should feel like anything. That's where the hard problem is, I think.
Are you saying qualia don't exist, as per some interpretations of Dennett?