Would you expect that reply to convince A? Or would you just accept that A might go on believing that there’s something important and ineffable left to explain about containment, and there’s not much you can do about it? Or something else?
If you were a container, you would understand the wonderful feeling of containment, the insatiable longing to contain, the sweet anticipation of the content being loaded, the ultimate reason for containing and other incomparable wonderful and tortuous qualia no non-container can enjoy. Not being one, all you can understand is the mechanics of containment, a pale shadow of the rich and true containing experience.
It is for A to state what the remaining problem actually is. And qualiphiles can do that
D: I can explain how conscious entities respond to their environments, process information and behave. What more is there?
C: How it all looks from the inside—the qualia.
There’s nothing left to explain about containment. There’s something left to explain about consc.
Would you expect that reply to convince A?
Or would you just accept that A might go on believing that there’s something important and ineffable left to explain about containment, and there’s not much you can do about it?
Or something else?
If you were a container, you would understand the wonderful feeling of containment, the insatiable longing to contain, the sweet anticipation of the content being loaded, the ultimate reason for containing and other incomparable wonderful and tortuous qualia no non-container can enjoy. Not being one, all you can understand is the mechanics of containment, a pale shadow of the rich and true containing experience.
OK, maybe I’m getting a bit NSFW here...
It is for A to state what the remaining problem actually is. And qualiphiles can do that
D: I can explain how conscious entities respond to their environments, process information and behave. What more is there? C: How it all looks from the inside—the qualia.