Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

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

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

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

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

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.