What is the mechanism that translates cognitive feeling e.g. pain or sight into qualia that our consciousness experiences? Why does red look red?
>>572567
the brain and nervous system
>>572567
this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
>>572574
Fucking #rekt
>>572567
Is that Candito?
>>572689
>Implying the hard problem of consciousness doesn't have implications for the humanities
>Implying you even frequent this board
>Implying you're not a faggot
>>572689
>i don't understand the Hard Problem
>implying anyone gives a shit about the Hard Problem
>>572739
Hard materialist; consciousness is an "illusion" of the brain
>>572739
brain percieves, nervous system transmits
>>572689
>psychology is /sci/ and not /his/
>>572744
> Consciousness is an "illusion" of the brain
> You're merely imagining that you're imagining!
hurr durr
>>572756
transmits to what
>>572744
what is the real connection between synapses and qualia then
>>572829
conciousness of course
inb4 low IQ STEMlords think qualia is the same as Platonic Forms
>>572896
stop being a faggot please this is a place of serious discussion
>>572843
Nobody knows.
Only one quantum theory (Orch-OR) is out there, but nobody takes it seriously
>>572961
>Orch-OR
I've only just skimmed the wikipedia article, but I don't understand how they're coming up with all these weird hyper-specific functional details considering this is a completely untestable dude-what-if conjecture
>>573026
Hence, the reason why the "Hard Problem" is named that way.
Current science doesn't have a clue on how neuronal firing in the brain generates qualia/subjective experience. One can only speculate
>>572739
When we know how that shit is encoded, we have no idea.
Until then, stop looking for things that aren't there like qualia
Dennett is a blight on all discussions of consciousness. Herpa derpa you're hallucinating your inner world lmfao SCIENCE
>>572820
Consciousness as a coherent thing is the illusion (I think).
You are the continued arousal of neurons, there is no central (you) stored anywhere.
Hey guys
I claim to experience qualia
So doesn't that mean there is another feedback loop AFTER qualia?
We can't picture a "soul" residing outside the brain passively experiencing its states and calculations
because the brain in that scenario would be ignorant of qualia
so somehow the physical brain is consulted again after the qualia stage?
either that or... what?
pic unrelated on someone else's computer
>>574740
Self-examining feedback loops are one take on the solution, sure. They even make a decent amount of sense.
>>574754
The trouble is it means communication between brain and 'soul' has to go both directions, it rules out picturing qualia as the passive experience of your brain.
>>574778
By the current understanding, there is only the brain, examining input and its reactions to that input. Not sure what you mean by 'soul'.
>>574815
whatever mechanism does the experiencing of qualia.
>>574822
The phenomenon of qualia is in itself the "illusion" of consciousness. There are no discrete packets of conscious experience. Consciousness arises from changes in the physical state in the brain. A snapshot of the position of every single particle in a brain at one point in time does not constitute a person, because no change is happening.
The mechanism that "experiences" qualia is the set of feedback loops that examine and re-examine sensory input.
