Internal experience is an input to your mind (that’s how you know about it), and what your mind perceives affects what it does. The better question is: how can what you experience possibly not affect your actions?

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IsTom 11 days ago | parent [-]

What you do is determined by physical action of neurons. There is no need for there to be someone to perceive it.

	▲	braebo 10 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The need arises when you consider the complex social systems humans leverage for survival — our ability to navigate interpersonal conflicts and engage in cooperation relies on theory of mind and our tendency to perceive ourselves as individual free agents empathizing with separate free agents.
	▲	layer8 11 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		By definition, internal experience is something you perceive, and what you perceive informs how you act. Therefore internal experience affects outward physical action.