Abstract

I am grateful to Jakob Korf for his reply to my comment on his “Qualia in a Contemporary Neurobiological Perspective”. I appreciate that Korf’s intention is to approach the issue from the perspective of neuroscience, rather than philosophy of mind, and I suspect that our dialogue may have partly been at cross purposes. Korf concedes that he does not resolve the “hard problem” of Chalmers. This is a reasonable concession and entirely appropriate for his aim. However, to mitigate the potential for miscommunication, some care is needed to ensure conceptual clarity, so that theoretical claims about brain processes are not erroneously exalted to metaphysical claims about the “hard problem”.