Mind is the brain?

[Chas]

'Qualia' is not a coherently defined concept.  Why is the experience not simply the sum of the inputs?

I'm not sure what's incoherent about the definition of qualia: it's what it's like to experience things.

And what do you mean by inputs?  A rock "inputs" light in the sense that rock molecules can absorb photons, and "inputs" sound in the sense that vibrations in air cause vibrations in the rock, but I do not really believe that a rock experiences Led Zeppelin in any meaningful way.  I'm pretty sure your view of mind is more complex than that.

Let's say that I "input" light and sound information into a robot.  Can you, then, explain to me what it's like for that robot to experience the information?  Would it experience cocoa as I do?

Rocks are not conscious, that's a silly analogy.

The inputs to the mind are the physical ones that we are conscious of and our perception of our reaction to those.
That is what the experience is, that is what it is 'like'.

Other people don't even experience cocoa the same as you.  None of us have had identical experiences so that our reactions to things can't be identical.
Might my experience of cocoa be similar to yours? Sure, we are both humans.

If you use "the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions, arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena" as your definition of qualia, what is in need of explanation?