Explaining what people say about sensory qualia
Oxford University Press eBooks August 19, 2010 J. Kevin Ο’Regan 10 citations
This chapter discusses three problematic aspects of sensory experiences: their ineffability, structure, and ‘what it's like’ to undergo the experiences. It argues that these features of sensory experiences seem to admit of no explanation in terms of brain mechanisms. However, the sensorimotor account of phenomenal consciousness provides a satisfactory account of these puzzling features of...