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I want to explain my question a little more precisely: the question does not arise when we look at a person from the outside, we consider him objectively; we know that a person has an organism, a processor brain, and we understand that a person acts in one way or another due to certain physiological features of the body and a given set of reactions to external stimuli/pathogens. But it is impossible to see ourselves as such a being – at least because we have the illusion of free will when we think, and also because we sincerely experience everything that happens to us. What should I do?
Based on your belief that the brain is a processor, a person does not have free will, but only a set of programmed functions, you can answer like this:
The experience of being is one of the survival functions of social animals. Even guppies have them. It consists in distinguishing between one's own and group needs and instincts. It is currently processing incoming signals.
If you perceive a person a little more complex than a robot with a program,then the answer will be more difficult from another area.
As one of the options, I suggest the option: explain this using grammar. In all languages created by humans, there are verbs. Verbs themselves, if we abstract, are actions that are stretched out in time (different peoples have different shades here, simple actions, completed, refined, extended, and so on). The most basic verb, the verb of existence, is ” to be.” The sense of existence, as you put it, is described in our thoughts primarily by the categories of being. The very concept of being is clear to us precisely because we can say “I was yesterday, “” I am now, “or”I will be tomorrow.” If we did not know the concept of verbs as such, we would see the world as a disjointed set of objects and their properties and would not perceive the fluidity of ourselves in space. In this sense, it is more interesting to ask how a person who thinks nonverbally/wordlessly perceives being — for example, an infant