@HolographicUniverse The case for addicts might reduce obligingly. The case for different composers deciding what tones, rhythms, phrasing and harmonies will express fear or feelings of grandeur would be much more resistant. So I’m inclined toward the school that says Epiphenomenalism can describe a lot that goes on in consciousness. Research in neuroscience has compiled an impressive body of proofs that such is true.
Still I agree with Prof. Frank Jackson, who noted, “I am what is sometimes known as a ‘qualia freak’. I think that there are certain features of bodily sensations especially, but also of certain perceptual experiences, which no amount of purely physical information includes. Tell me everything physical there is to tell about what is going on in a living brain… you won’t have told me about the hurtfulness of pains, the itchiness of itches, pangs of jealousy…”