why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?

[Belacqua]

In my estimation, the problem of qualia is really the evolutionary problem of how selves emerged.  

I agree that the problem of qualia and the problem of the experienced self are, in essence, the same problem. 

The self seems to consist mostly of experienced qualia, or the memory of them, or the imaginative recombination of those memories. So in a sense the self is just built of qualia. 

I don't see that as making the problem any easier or harder. Get the self, you get the qualia. Get the qualia, you get the self.

I hadn't framed it quite like this before, so I'm glad you suggested it.