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I don't know either, it's just that the problem seems to be hard in a fundamental way. We would have to show how something like brain processing results in subjective experience in a way that isn't just correlation. The explanation would somehow have to show how the subjective emerges. How it's determined by the physical processes.

Then we could go make computers conscious.



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