Fortunately, it is a question, which can stay unanswered with no practical consequences. It is a subjective counterpart of "Why is there something rather than n

Fortunately, it is a question, which can stay unanswered with no practical consequences. It is a subjective counterpart of "Why is there something rather than nothing?", and we aren't answering either anytime soon. Utterly absurd and completely false. An explanation for the question of why pain feels the why it does, for example, has enormous practical implications and consequences. The current neurological and medical approaches to pain management are poorly understood and often dangerous in extreme cases. We literally don't know why or how Tylenol works. That is a huge problem. The current best-case scenario, absent an explanation of the nature of the character of pain experiences, is that we find some neural activities that we can alter with advanced medical techniques which reliably suppress pain experiences. But it's not clear that 1) we will ever find such techniques, 2) that such techniques would exhaustively alter all the kinds of physical pain a human might experience, 3) that such techniques wouldn't negatively alter other aspects of a person's mind. If we had a fuller explanation of the nature of the character of the experience itself (rather than just treating consciousness like a black box), we might be able to alter the experiences more precisely and appropriately.