If you argue that it only exists to increase the chance of surviving (the evolutionary argument), that doesn't actually answer the question, because evolution can't select for things that aren't possible physically (evolution can't violate physics). So you're not actually answering the question, so this response is insufficient.
If you argue that qualia doesn't exist/is just an illusion, then you have to explain why feelings of pain and pleasure are not the same as each other, and this also bars you from making the evolutionary argument. If the difference between pain and pleasure is just an illusion, then evolution couldn't have used the sensations of pain vs. pleasure to increase an organisms chance of survival. So this answer is also insufficient, and also falsified by evolution.
If you argue that all nerves/sensory organs will respond to stimuli in the same way (so our eyes will "see red" when a photon of a specific wavelength hits it) then this just circles back to the original question; WHY does that combination of atoms have that qualitative sensation?
If you argue it's just "information", then you have to define what information means (usually this defined as negentropy), and like the previous point, you have to explain why certain algorithms or arrangements of information/matter have qualitative experiences. Why do certain patterns of electrons/information cause qualia?
So basically, why is it that in this universe, certain combinations of atoms have qualitative experiences? Where do the qualitative experiences come from? Where do they go? Where did you come from, cotton eyed joe?
Also amazon women and small men are the future. Seethe about it all you want, it's inevitable. Pic related is a drawing of some schoolkids 20 years from now. Very good dimorphism.
If you argue that qualia doesn't exist/is just an illusion, then you have to explain why feelings of pain and pleasure are not the same as each other, and this also bars you from making the evolutionary argument. If the difference between pain and pleasure is just an illusion, then evolution couldn't have used the sensations of pain vs. pleasure to increase an organisms chance of survival. So this answer is also insufficient, and also falsified by evolution.
If you argue that all nerves/sensory organs will respond to stimuli in the same way (so our eyes will "see red" when a photon of a specific wavelength hits it) then this just circles back to the original question; WHY does that combination of atoms have that qualitative sensation?
If you argue it's just "information", then you have to define what information means (usually this defined as negentropy), and like the previous point, you have to explain why certain algorithms or arrangements of information/matter have qualitative experiences. Why do certain patterns of electrons/information cause qualia?
So basically, why is it that in this universe, certain combinations of atoms have qualitative experiences? Where do the qualitative experiences come from? Where do they go? Where did you come from, cotton eyed joe?
Also amazon women and small men are the future. Seethe about it all you want, it's inevitable. Pic related is a drawing of some schoolkids 20 years from now. Very good dimorphism.
