Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?