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If we do not elaborate the idea of impersonal experience in some such way, there is a problem of how we can even understand what it means for someone else to have an experience. I learn that 'There is a pain' is true when (as we should normally say) I have a pain. And because this is what the sentence means to me, I may interpret it in that way even when the pain is in another body. As Saul Kripke puts it, 'In sum, any attempt to imagine a direct connection between a sensation and a physical object without mentioning a "self" or "mind" leads me simply to imagine that I have a sensation located elsewhere.'

― I: the Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity, Jonathan Glover