But the human brain is often cited a the most complex thing in the known universe.
That’s why it’s unsurprising that the solution doesn’t involve brain much.
I see no reason to suppose that.
The reason I was thinking of is the difference in naturallness of the phenomenon when translated into physical ontology. If your question is “what’s light?” you can point to the electromagnetic field term. If you want to predict the exact picture on your screen from first principles, you’ll need the electromagnetic field but also additional unrealistic amount of work. Yes, reductionist explanation should provide reasons why it’s compatible with non-reduced phenomenon. But that’s done—it solves conceivability argument by substituting “existence” for “consciousness”, it explains why apparent unity of experience is not precisely true, it provides explanations for why we can extrapolate/isolate solution in many concrete example problems. And you didn’t specify any concrete aspects of consciousness that you think are not derivable from physical description given consciousness=existence. Like, what step of justification you’re unconvinced by? The only reason for prediction from neural activity to matter is if you think physicalism does not work for physics. But that is even not how it works in the zombie world.
That’s why it’s unsurprising that the solution doesn’t involve brain much.
The reason I was thinking of is the difference in naturallness of the phenomenon when translated into physical ontology. If your question is “what’s light?” you can point to the electromagnetic field term. If you want to predict the exact picture on your screen from first principles, you’ll need the electromagnetic field but also additional unrealistic amount of work. Yes, reductionist explanation should provide reasons why it’s compatible with non-reduced phenomenon. But that’s done—it solves conceivability argument by substituting “existence” for “consciousness”, it explains why apparent unity of experience is not precisely true, it provides explanations for why we can extrapolate/isolate solution in many concrete example problems. And you didn’t specify any concrete aspects of consciousness that you think are not derivable from physical description given consciousness=existence. Like, what step of justification you’re unconvinced by? The only reason for prediction from neural activity to matter is if you think physicalism does not work for physics. But that is even not how it works in the zombie world.
Huh?
I mentioned the hard problem , which is literally defined in terms.of qualia.