Maybe I am hopelessly ill, but I think there is a problem in chapter 7:
“The quest to unravel the mystery of consciousness involves not just defining the term but reconstructing the entire causal chain that leads some people to speak about it, why we utter the word ‘con-scious-ness’—to understand why, for example, my lips articulate this word.”
Yes, it is possible to explain all the processes in my brain that cause my body to produce the sounds “why I have consciousness,” but it will not answer the main question: Why are these processes in the brain happening from the first-person perspective? Why is anything in this Universe happening from the first-person perspective?
From my point of view, the simplest answer to this question is that all the processes in this world are in some way happening from the first-person perspective; that feelings are not produced by matter, but instead what we call “matter” and “feelings” are just two different aspects of the same substance. Yes, it may sound weird and does not fully solve the problem, but at least we no longer have to wonder what mysterious magic is happening inside our brains that produces the subject.
Maybe I am hopelessly ill, but I think there is a problem in chapter 7:
“The quest to unravel the mystery of consciousness involves not just defining the term but reconstructing the entire causal chain that leads some people to speak about it, why we utter the word ‘con-scious-ness’—to understand why, for example, my lips articulate this word.”
Yes, it is possible to explain all the processes in my brain that cause my body to produce the sounds “why I have consciousness,” but it will not answer the main question: Why are these processes in the brain happening from the first-person perspective? Why is anything in this Universe happening from the first-person perspective?
From my point of view, the simplest answer to this question is that all the processes in this world are in some way happening from the first-person perspective; that feelings are not produced by matter, but instead what we call “matter” and “feelings” are just two different aspects of the same substance. Yes, it may sound weird and does not fully solve the problem, but at least we no longer have to wonder what mysterious magic is happening inside our brains that produces the subject.