<p>This paper examines an argument for a novel and speculative way to think about the mind–body relation, one based on the concept of being involved in such expressions as 'What is it like to be a bat?' or 'there is nothing it feels like to be a rock'. The core of the argument relies on the hypothesis that this concept of being—dubbed "subjective being"—denotes a relation between the object or entity (organism), and subjectivity, or phenomenal consciousness, as well as on the claim that this concept is distinct, that is, not assimilable to other more familiar concepts. The argument thus holds that we should understand the relation between phenomenal consciousness and an organism (in case it is phenomenally conscious) in terms of subjective being: subjective being relates the object to subjectivity.</p>