If the conscious qualitative property and the neural property are identical, then the neural property does not cause or give rise to the conscious qualitative property — it simply is the conscious qualitative property.
identity (in philosophy)(whether the trees are actually identical)
Sameness or whether two things are actually the same thing, not just very similar.
neural property(philosophy of mind and neuroscience)
A physical property of the brain and nervous system — like the firing of neurons or the release of chemicals — that can be measured and observed scientifically.
Nonetheless the type-type identity theory has enjoyed a recent if modest resurgence at least with respect to qualia or qualitative conscious properties. This has been in part because treating the relevant psycho-physical link as an identity is thought by some to offer a way of dissolving the explanatory gap problem (Hill and McLaughlin 1998, Papineau 1995, 2003). They argue that if the conscious qualitative property and the neural property are identical, then there is no need to explain how the