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This is something I've been thinking about for a while now... how does it happen, that we perceive things the way we do? For instance, how do we perceive colours or hear things - the very quality of them, not the physical process. Why are the senses like they are, why and how are they experienced as they are? Why is the perception of sound the way it is? Once again, not the actual mechanism in the body that allows us to experience it, but why it is experienced in very nature that it is.
Obviously it is related to the nature of consciousness. But it is a mystery how processes in the universe would conjure up something that perceives in this way. For instance, short-wavelength light enters our eyes etc and we experience what we would call 'blue' or 'purple'. But how does this perception exist in the manner that we see it - why is it like that, or how? Same with sounds or touch or taste or smell. Hopefully I am making myself clear.
Obviously it is related to the nature of consciousness. But it is a mystery how processes in the universe would conjure up something that perceives in this way. For instance, short-wavelength light enters our eyes etc and we experience what we would call 'blue' or 'purple'. But how does this perception exist in the manner that we see it - why is it like that, or how? Same with sounds or touch or taste or smell. Hopefully I am making myself clear.