Forget qualia, zombies and zimboes Response to Goldberg, Wilson, Hayes Gordon Globus Stephen Goldberg and David Wilson raise seemingly reasonable objections to my claim that the hard problem is world qualities, not mental qualia. After all, stimulate the occipital lobe and you get sight, says Goldberg, so it seems to be an internal thing.
Nothing changes 'outside,' just 'inside'.
The pain of a phantom limb is inside, not outside, he continues. Common sense belief in the quotidian world out there must be profoundly solicited. So no surprise that brain stimulation of the visual area produces sight. In waking as in dreaming. That brain stimulation produces worlds in the absence of input is precisely what we would expect of a monadic brain.