It’s like asking why high kinetic energy “feels” hot. It doesn’t, heat is just how the brain models signals from temperature receptors and maps them into the self-model.
Same idea here: Section 3 argues that all feelings work like that - subjective experience is just how predictive, self-modeling systems represent internal and external states.
Sections 4 and 5 explain why this evolved: it’s a useful way for the brain to prioritize action when reflexes aren’t enough. You “feel” something because that’s how your brain tracks itself and the environment.
If this doesn’t count as an explanation (or at least a concrete hypothesis), what would one look like to you? What kind of answer would satisfy you that subjective experience has been explained?
It’s like asking why high kinetic energy “feels” hot. It doesn’t, heat is just how the brain models signals from temperature receptors and maps them into the self-model.
Same idea here: Section 3 argues that all feelings work like that - subjective experience is just how predictive, self-modeling systems represent internal and external states.
Sections 4 and 5 explain why this evolved: it’s a useful way for the brain to prioritize action when reflexes aren’t enough. You “feel” something because that’s how your brain tracks itself and the environment.
If this doesn’t count as an explanation (or at least a concrete hypothesis), what would one look like to you? What kind of answer would satisfy you that subjective experience has been explained?