>>11416994>It is physically possible for you to really believe that 1+1=3, just as it is physically possible for you to really believe that you’ve seen something before when you haven’t (deja vu), just as it is physically possible for you to really believe that it is normal to have a dancing gorilla in your living room (e.g., during a dream).Again, these are all easy problems, which offer nothing to explain the hard problem.
The sense of self is a belief, but qualia are not a belief. Qualia essentially form the entire reality of a subjective perspective. Saying we are "tricked" into experiencing qualia is akin to saying a bird is "tricked" into staying suspended in the air. It doesn't make any sense. The bird really does fly, this cannot be written off as some illusion on the bird's behalf.
There are perfectly valid physical mechanisms for the processing of sensory information, but there is no established mechanism for the rise of qualia. If the ability to experience qualia is inherent to matter, so be it, but we should be able to elaborate and investigate further than "it just is," especially considering the interplay between qualia and nervous perception.
