Free Will

[bennyboy]

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?

The qualia are all "happening" from the same place and from no perspective.  Perspective is a simulation based upon inputs.  Your eyes work like a camera, helping you to build a model that can be from any perspective you have sufficient (or can manufacture sufficient) mapping for.  You can thusly see a sphere in the first person, or you can "see" yourself looking at a sphere in the third person.  That we mostly have first person experiences is probabl;y more to do with the locality of our sensory apparatus than anything else.  There's a crushing weight of "first person" input, and relatively less third person models of anything.  Obviously it;s not a requirement of operation that it be first person..or else we wouldn't have that third person ability.  Your brain accepts input from your brain just as readily as it accepts input from your eyes.

My computer seems to work okay without it (so far as I know) experiencing what it's like to be a computer. My car seems to drive around pretty well without it (so far as I know) experiencing what it's like to be a car. There's no reason to think that ANY mechanism would need to experience what it is like to be itself in order to function properly. So are you disregard mind as a brute fact, or attempt to explain why one particular mechanism experiences what it's like to be itself?