(December 31, 2018 at 2:33 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: 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.
The trouble with qualia is that nobody knows how we get them.
If you believe in mind/body dualism or res cogitans that's not a problem -- you just say qualia are a different substance. But if you believe, as most brain scientists do, that the mind arises from the body, then the trouble is that how qualia arise is completely unknown.
