In this paper we computationally examine how subjective experience may help or harm the decision maker’s learning under uncertain outcomes, frames and their interactions. To model subjective experience, we propose the “experienced-utility function” based on a prospect theory (PT)-based parameterized subjective value function. Our analysis and simulations of two-armed bandit tasks present that t...

This sociological study aims to understand the subjective experience of health and illness of the inhabitants of Ocuituco (Mexico). This interpretation is made in connection with the social and subjective contexts of this town. Four factors characterize Ocuituco's social context: (1) economic deprivation (poverty); (2) male domination (patriarchy); (3) a process of medicalization; and (4) a dec...

Do philosophers and ordinary people conceive of subjective experience in the same way? In this article, we argue that they don’t and that the philosophical concept of phenomenal consciousness does not coincide with the folk conception. We first offer experimental support for the hypothesis that philosophers and ordinary people conceive of subjective experience in markedly different ways. We the...

When I have a conscious experience of the sky, there is a bluish way it is like for me to have that experience. We may distinguish two aspects of this “bluish way it is like for me”: (i) the bluish aspect and (ii) the for-me aspect. Let us call the bluish aspect of the experience its qualitative character and the for-me aspect its subjective character. What is this elusive for-me-ness, or subje...