Our Anosognosia for the Expanatory Gap

The current understanding of causality and functionality, a world in which there were organisms that survived, reproduced, competed, learned, talked, etc., would be no problem at all to explain in the usual, causal, functional way -- as long as they were insentient, like all other dynamical systems. But we are not such organisms. We feel. We nevertheless have (or will eventually have) functional explanations (neural and computational) for all of our functions -- surviving, reproducing, competing, learning, talking, etc. -- except feeling. Most thinkers on this question (today and yesteryear) seem to find this fundamental explanatory problem so unacceptable that they either lapse into agnosia (nb, not the same as agnosticism! more like anosognosia, q.v.) about it or into provisionally soothing question-begging of the kind for which we now have a fairly representative sample in the 440+ posts in this PhilPapers thread so far!