(December 31, 2018 at 10:57 am)bennyboy Wrote: By the way, Zainab, if nobody's mentioned it, the essential issue is about "qualia," knowing what things are like-- what it's like to taste chocolate, for example.
We are our bodies. Stuff which happens to our bodies happens to us. Thus "qualia" only become a problem when people think of consciousness as somehow independent of the body. But our bodies are what are conscious.