> Why do you think so? What makes you think subjective experience is not just another type of brain function, like smell, taste or value judgement? The key her

> Why do you think so? What makes you think subjective experience is not just another type of brain function, like smell, taste or value judgement? The key here being "not just". The reason is because there is no conceptual identity between subjective states and brain functions. They're entirely different things. This doesn't mean brain states aren't involved. It means a reduction or identity can't be stated as the solution without explaining how the subjective comes from it. This is basically the modern version of John Locke's secondary qualities of perception (color, taste, etc) not being the primary qualities of objects (number, extension, etc). Neurons have objective qualities identified in science. But how they have secondary qualities is the big mystery.