From PhilPapers forum Philosophy of Mind:

2009-05-27
The 'Explanatory Gap'
Reply to Arnold Trehub

PROCESSES DON'T BECOME FELT BY FIAT


AT:  "...to have an idea of how/why brain mechanisms generate felt/conscious sensations rather than unfelt/unconscious sensory events we need to refer to a theoretical model of... the brain mechanism for our global phenomenal content and the brain mechanisms serving our separate sensory modalities."
My guess: The circularity comes with the "global phenomenal content": How/why is "global content" felt content? 
AT: ['how... a prior unfelt process can cause the feeling of willing the movement'] is not at all mysterious when you understand that there is recurrent axonal excitation between the mechanism that represents our global phenomenal world (including selective attention to events in the world) and the mechanisms that serve our separate sensory-motor modalities."
How does "recurrent axonal excitation" explain how/why "global" content, or selective (or unselective) attention become felt content, and felt attention? Neural structures and processes do not become felt by fiat. And correlation is not, nor does it explain, causation.


-- SH