That characteristic inner feeling that identifies you, as if given a dozen such feelings from diverse individuals you could immediately pick out your own? And yet it can change or become distorted under the effects of fever or drugs and you know that immediately, you feel 'not yourself'. No other sensory content is as private; there is nothing else in the world that resembles it in any way, or perhaps there are certain rare musical passages that seem to evoke it, and seem especially striking for that. Only in sex is there the illusion of bringing your inner feeling right up against that of an other. It requires a body but is unchanged when body perception is as in sleep or in water. And it is not a matter of particular qualia, not a mental object, it has a kind of spatiality and temporality, it decrees directions of thought and motion, of presencing. Feeling is its outer shell, it is what is meant by 'feeling like', but if it is not a feeling what is it? What is required in order to grasp it as it is?