(January 17, 2022 at 7:44 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(January 17, 2022 at 7:33 pm)GrandizerII Wrote: You still need to bridge the gap between the physiological and the phenomenological. Chalmers is very clear on what the hard problem is. Even if you have all the necessary correlates, you still need to explain how those translate to experiences/qualia exactly.
I just don't see this as being a "hard problem". Qualia are what the conscious mind experiences - full stop. The conscious mind must have some experience - it might as well be the qualia we know. It could be different qualia if we had different brains or different senses, but it has to be something.
Now, identity and a sense of self is a bit of a mystery, but I feel that is an illusion created by our mind. If we were part of the Borg collective, we wouldn't experience a singular identity. Our separateness and our memories creates the sense of self.
I have no problem with your last paragraph. I think that's very reasonable.
Your first paragraph, however, is confusing to me. I'm not sure why you don't think the way that qualia presents itself to us is a challenge for us to explain. And you say the conscious mind must have some experience, but then why must there be a conscious mind in the first place? How is it arising?
