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When you’re sitting around a campfire with your friends, there’s a sense in which your experience is shared with all of them – after all, you’re seeing the same flames and hearing the same crackling logs. But there’s another sense in which your conscious experience is not shared with anyone; it belongs only to you. When a friend tries to empathise with you, they might say: ‘I feel your pain.’ Of course, this shouldn’t be taken literally. An individual cannot literally feel a pain that isn’t theirs
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