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>>15095822
>I experience that taste of chocolate, the burn of a stove, the smell of flowers, etc. None of those experiences came with a coordinate in which it was located in within my consciousness. That doesn't mean they don't exist.
Chocolate has no taste, a stove doesn't produce burning, and flowers don't smell. This is confusing sensation for reality.

When we talk about the behavior of a system, strictly speaking the "behavior" itself doesn't exist. It's just an abstraction we use to talk about what the system is doing.

Your experiences are similarly an abstraction over sensation and various other processes, "experiences" themselves don't actually exist.