Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a problem, historical research and close attention to texts is what is needed, not unconstrained speculation about the 'pictures' that philosophers must be in the grip of.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they should also be conscious of the risk of inventing pointless 'technical' machinery which do not offer real explanations, but often just re-state the known facts in a more complex way.

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.