trying to snare the concept of consciousness in a definition that brings it inside the rational and empirical is a favorite pastime of the overweening and is in every case completely analogous to the drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost because the light's better there
and this, to you, explains the existence of subjects of perception? uh, Imperial scum, i guess
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Nah. The weird thing is, these sorts of predictive brain views explain almost everything about the contents of experience, including individual subjectivity, while leaving the existence at all of experience still unexplained. Which is no call for mysterianism.
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oh, well, that's my point, yes mysterianism is of course its own reward
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