Free Will

[Yoo]

First of all, I was talking about a function in the evolutionary sense. So painting a work of art or inventing a moon lander isn't precisely what I was thinking of, hehe. 

Yes it was.  Painting a work of art and inmventing moon landers -are- evolutionary functions.  What do you think makes us such badasses, evolutionarily?

Secondly, I've never understood how people could make sense of the idea that qualia are, literally, brain activity. "They don't come from brain activity, they are brain activity." That has never made sense to me. Could you explain it?

Sure.  In the same way that computation -is- the state of the gate assembly...qualia -is- the state of the neural correlate.  Neither are some separate substance or thing, they are descriptions -of- that thing.

You say qualia are brain functions. So there is this function happening in the brain, looking at it from third pserson perspective. Also, there are qualia happening from a first person perspective at the same time. Would you say the function happening in the brain wouldn't work if there weren't qualia from a first person perspective?