Not to be dismissive of a chunk of philosophy, but your post is akin to “I’ve tried to understand elan vital, but I keep running into problems integrating it with my biology course”.
Even the most strident eliminative materialists understand what is meant by qualia. You don’t have to integrate a concept into your theory to understand what it means.
Not to be dismissive of a chunk of philosophy, but your post is akin to “I’ve tried to understand elan vital, but I keep running into problems integrating it with my biology course”.
Materialists should be able to answer “why do people think they have qualia” without it being a mystery.
Even the most strident eliminative materialists understand what is meant by qualia. You don’t have to integrate a concept into your theory to understand what it means.