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

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

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

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.

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.