durangodawood
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If absolute proof is required, then no, we cannot say one person's perception of hunger is anything like another person's.The feeling is a cognitive assessment. Sure there are physiological conditions but they don't show that what one person's perception of hunger or sad or happy or any other subjective experience is the same or can even be assessed at all. We can't say any of the feelings are shared because we can't know what another person is feeling, we can only make physiological measurements and they are not feelings.
But if we're just looking for whats most reasonable to believe, then its fine to propose that people who speak about hunger using the same metaphors, who share almost identical physiology, who satisfy the hunger the same way..... are speaking about pretty much the same experience.
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