I have absolutely no idea. All anyone can do, whether it's within physicalism or any alternative, is produce untestable hypotheses (guesses).
Have we invented the hard problem of consciousness? — Beautiful Mind
So it's not a problem, nothing to see here folks, but at the same time it's unsolved and we have basically no predictive power? — Mijin
When firings of the required kind occur in certain cells, the subject can to some extent produce, sort out, criticize, revise descriptions or pictures of a horse. The "image" and the "picture in the mind" have vanished; mythical inventions have been beneficially excised.
[...] we must construe informal talk of rotating images in some way that does not imply that there are images twirling in the head. — Nelson Goodman: Sights Unseen
Just like most people, I had to have a "penny drop" moment, where I realized that pain, color, smells etc are phenomena that occur in the brain, not in the outside world (or the body, in the case of pain), in a way we don't yet understand. — Mijin
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