>How can consciousness be possible if there is no collective, only atomic agglomerations which form a "self"? Who receives this consciousness?
>[...] Suppose the following: A contraption is constructed on a wall. The maker puts a number of small metallic spheres on top of it, and they slide down the ramps. This contraption was built in a way that, depending on the amount of spheres put on it, a different answer will be given in the end. The maker puts exactly four spheres on top, which slide, rotate and jump, going through many obstacles, until the end, where a final sphere indicates at last what message is given.
>Could it be said that this contraption has qualia, uniquely for having input, processing and output? Wouldn't the answer be nothing more than a result of physical processes, simply action and reaction?
If consciousness is a mere illusion created by our brain to exteriorize ourselves from the ambient, what is our brain deceiving? Let's divide the brain into two parts: the main one, and the one responsible for the creation of consciousness, qualia. If the main part is responsible for everything, such as hunger, desire, thoughts and all the logical processing, therefore this part is led to be exteriorized from the ambient through the tricks of the second part. But we, while spirit, are the brain in its totality. Then, what is the second part deceiving? The atoms? The cells? Or the total functioning of the brain? But it is exactly this: input, processing and output. If the second part interferes in the processing, all that would change would be the output, since exteriorizing itself from the outside would change the output, but that is it. No one receives any consciousness.
>[...] Then, there are two possibilities: either qualia exists beyond the physical world (a soul), or our understanding of this subject is vague and incomplete. No matter what, there must be a change.