This is the essence of the real problem approach to consciousness. Accept that consciousness exists, and then ask how the various phenomenological properties of consciousness – which is to say how conscious experiences are structured, what form they take – relate to properties of brains, brains that are embodied in bodies and embedded in worlds. Answers to these questions can begin by identifying correlations between this-or-that pattern of brain activity and this-or-that type of conscious experience, but they need not and should not end there. The challenge is to build increasingly sturdy
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