I guess my beef is that when it’s framed as “But why does XYZ system entail qualia?” I infer that even if in the far future I had a SUPER detailed understanding of “tweak this and you get X more units of experience, if you don’t have ABC any experience is impossible, LMN architecture is really helpful, but not necessary” that Chalmers would still be unimpressed and got “But why does any of this lead to qualia?”
Well, I don’t actually think he’d say that. If I had that sorta detailed outline I think his mind would be blown and he’d be super excited.
But when I imagine the person who is still going “But why”, I’m imagining that they must be thinking of qualia is this isolated, other, and separate thing.
It’s a little unclear from this description whether that understanding would actually solve the hard problem or not? Like, if we have a solution for it, then it would obviously be silly for someone to still say “but why”; but if that understanding actually doesn’t solve the problem, then it doesn’t seem particularly silly to continue asking the question. Whether or not asking it in that situation implies believing that qualia must be divorced from everything else—I couldn’t tell without actually seeing an explanation of that understanding.
It’s a little unclear from this description whether that understanding would actually solve the hard problem or not? Like, if we have a solution for it, then it would obviously be silly for someone to still say “but why”; but if that understanding actually doesn’t solve the problem, then it doesn’t seem particularly silly to continue asking the question. Whether or not asking it in that situation implies believing that qualia must be divorced from everything else—I couldn’t tell without actually seeing an explanation of that understanding.