Frances to Geoff and others... It is agreed that the term "wrong" may not have been quite right, because it implies the pain was felt to be say bad in mind. My key point however remains that conscious states, and to include referred phantom pain, must be the object of inferred interpretation, which makes consciousness a phenomenal sign that can be referred and deluded or doubted and judged. The human can thus never be sure, even of what seems to be their own inner self.
Geoff wrote... Persons being "wrong" regarding the source of pain: I don't see a function in claiming that persons perceiving pain in an amputated limb are "wrong". I might say that I don't understand what is going on there. But to say that they are "wrong" : according to what do you tell them they are "wrong". Your consciousness might differ, you might not be able to explain their experience with logic currently available but, at a minimum, within their experiencing, I don't understand how they could be "wrong".
