“Brian, the question is not why the senses feel the way they do, but why they feel like anything at all.”
Do you have any personal experience with beings with consciousnesses that don’t feel their own senses? Seems to me you should have some basis of comparison for assuming that senses shouldn’t feel like anything at all.
Your senses don’t feel like anything to me. Think that has anything to do with the fact that we don’t share a brain?
Besides, you are in part wrong, the question has been precisely why the senses feel the way they do. Why is red “red” and blue “blue”. Unfortunately, Robin removed my discussion of qualia and the indication to why the answer to “why” is more about engineering than philosophy.
Besides your question is now existential to the point where it can be asked of the material directly. Suppose we discover precisely “why we feel anything at all” and the answer is precisely because of properties of material things. Well then the question would not be considered closed by a philosopher. He’d just was why there are things at all.
“Brian, the question is not why the senses feel the way they do, but why they feel like anything at all.”
Do you have any personal experience with beings with consciousnesses that don’t feel their own senses? Seems to me you should have some basis of comparison for assuming that senses shouldn’t feel like anything at all.
Your senses don’t feel like anything to me. Think that has anything to do with the fact that we don’t share a brain?
Besides, you are in part wrong, the question has been precisely why the senses feel the way they do. Why is red “red” and blue “blue”. Unfortunately, Robin removed my discussion of qualia and the indication to why the answer to “why” is more about engineering than philosophy.
Besides your question is now existential to the point where it can be asked of the material directly. Suppose we discover precisely “why we feel anything at all” and the answer is precisely because of properties of material things. Well then the question would not be considered closed by a philosopher. He’d just was why there are things at all.
That’s four points.