Sure, but how do we know the baby “experiences pain” rather than just reacts? Behavior isn’t consciousness. My dream toothache shows that the same nociceptive signal can exist without the feeling of pain until a self-model interprets it. Maybe even a baby’s hurt is already a primitive story of self

Maybe pain needs a story to exist.

meaning of the pain gets displaced into the dream world.
When I wake up, the same signal is processed within the awake narrative frame of self-in-the-world. Then it becomes pain — localized, owned (“my tooth”), temporal (“it started last night”), and affective (“it hurts”).

During sleep, my brain still receives nociceptive signals (e.g., from my tooth), but since the waking self-model is offline, my brain weaves the signal into a dream narrative. Instead of “I have a toothache,” the dream constructs a story like “I’m late for school,” or “something’s wrong.” The

If pain is purely raw and doesn’t need interpretation, why do I sometimes dream my toothache as “being late for school” instead of feeling pain? The pain, as I consciously experience it(if i do not feel it like aliens!!), is not just raw sensory input,it's interpreted and narrativized by my mind.

Adding a realizer layer that links LLMs to physical and chemical processes would reconnect them to the causal hierarchy—allowing the system to be-in-the-world (Dasein) and potentially achieve consciousness.

In the hierarchical higher-order pointer theory, each layer points to the one below it, forming an unbroken causal chain. In AI, this chain is severed—the software doesn’t “point down” to physical reality, making it mere simulation.

‘Being’ is already the newest version
100 upgraded, 1.5M newly installed, 1M to remove
MyMind@MyBrain: ~$