Please explain "extention (sic) in space".
As to experiential properties being physical properties because they are caused by physical phenomena (the mind), this is a distinct possibility or even probability, and kind of gets us to the root of the question. Is consciousness then just an illusion caused by the functioning of our brain?
What I mean is difficult to explain, to say the least since nobody really knows. Many neuroscientists believe that an experiential memory is represented in our brain as a sequence of certain synapses firing , and that a strong memory is formed as the same sequence of synapses are fired multiple times. In this sense we can see that as we become familiar with certain experiences we can grow to have preferences based on this familiarity. Seemingly subjective preferences, both positive or negative, are actually just experiences that we are more familiar with. Perhaps that is all our consciousness really is, is the mind jumping around to all these different memories-but that still doesn't explain everything, does it?
For example, I'm sitting here at my keyboard, I read what you have written, I form a response as I scan my memory for things associated with what you wrote in order to form that response. Somewhere in this the act of reasoning takes place. The weighing of information, and collating it into a coherent paradigm. I'm searching for an answer, it will have to be based on either data I already have or will gain; i.e. experiential information, which is the result of me experiencing physical information through my neural system. But it is the actual act of putting it all together, the reasoning that has me somewhat baffled.
