(January 1, 2019 at 7:28 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote:(January 1, 2019 at 6:56 pm)Belaqua Wrote: The "hard problem" of consciousness is: how do electrochemical events in the brain present themselves to the subject as experiences? Yes, the process came about through evolution, but evolution doesn't answer the question.
My answer to the hard problem of consciousness was not "because of evolution," but rather, to paraphrase, because self-organization organizes selves. There is simply nothing in an indifferent or hostile environment to program biological organisms to choose survival over death, so if they are to survive at all they must evolve self-motivations, pleasures, pains, and so on -- at least at a certain level of complexity. In other words, such things can only come from inside the organisms themselves.
Right, that all seems very likely. Is someone here suggesting that something comes from outside the organism?
The question is how -- the mechanism by which -- electrochemical brain events present themselves to the subject as experiences. There is currently no explanation for this.
