Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für Philosophie), language: English, abstract: It is the materialist's hope to rule out any perception of the human mind resisting to harmonize with a reductionist or eliminativist explanation. Therefore this paper aims to give an overview on different conceptions of the phenomenon of qualia, revealing some crucial problems for conceptually grasping the mind.