Are other people conscious on a relative level?

[Inliytened1]

Unlocked.   Since everyone wants to respond.  Not sure why it was locked. 

[strangelooper]

I don't have a subjective experience of my own. All these people are just programmed to say otherwise.

[Osaid]

Just now, strangelooper said:

I don't have a subjective experience of my own. All these people are just programmed to say otherwise.

You shed your previous belief that "other people have subjective experience", but you do not transcend it or see through it. You replace it with another belief, perhaps a more spiritual or metaphysical one: "Other people are programmed, other people are this, that, etc." You can play that game infinitely. But what you're playing around with is like an intellectual play-doh; a poor substitute for the real thing. The medium that you are using to perceive the existence of "other people" is wrong, throw the entire thing away. You are simply changing the medium and thinking it is somehow more correct or real than the previous one.