what is phenomenal experience, and how does it arise within a purely mechanical universe without being already there in one form or another?

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• Phenomenal Experienceconcept0.794
  The felt quality of conscious states; identified with evaluative computation in learning systems
• Consciousness is always happening now — it constitutes what we experience as the immediate present; its minimal state contains only the presence of consciousness itself.claim0.773
  Paper's phenomenological claim about the temporal character of consciousness
• "To see the phenomenal world fully from the perspective of both freedom and the lack of separateness between oneself and others is to see it also with an irrationally openhearted warmth..."quote0.763
  Eleanor Rosch quote connecting non-dual perspective to compassion, opening Section 5.3
• Consciousness (phenomenal consciousness)concept0.756
  The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
• In its minimal state, conscious experience may contain nothing but the bare registration of its own occurrence, requiring only that the perceptual process is present within the field it createsclaim0.756
  CIMC's account of minimal phenomenal experience as the target for research and construction
• What exactly is the relationship between autonomy and phenomenal consciousness?question0.755
  Exploratory question in section 5.
• There are plausible views (e.g., global workspace theory, higher-order theory) on which autonomy entails phenomenal consciousness.claim0.755
  Tentative conclusion on the autonomy-consciousness link.
• Can Consciousness Or Subjective Experience Arise At Scalesquestion0.751