Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 108 of 171
Back pain is ontologically subjective
Kant argued that all the things we think of as being objects in the world are only objects in our heads. And, as Searle would say in more modern philosophical language, these things have an ontologically subjective mode of existence. Another example could be your back pain. It only exists as experienced by you—therefore it is ontologically subjective. However, as I mentioned earlier, the existence of conscious experience is an objective fact about the world,