What constitutes a philosophical question?

Is the underlying source of philosophical curiosity fundamentally distinct from the curiosity that springs any other question?

Does it originate from the common human urge to know and understand the environment, or is its background primarily emotional? Is it merely another form of intellectual curiosity?

In philosophy, we seek to unravel the nature of cognition (meaningful perception and conception), much like physics seeks to unravel the mysteries of tangible reality.

But what is the source of the philosophical mystery itself?

In physics, I see the movement (the phenomenon) that I attempt to explicate.

Do I similarly see or otherwise perceive the cognitive reaction or act that I aspire to explicate in philosophy?

If I do see the cognitive act, then the puzzle dissolves into the domain of the cognitive sciences (psychology, biology, neuroscience etc.). No distinct philosophical mystery remains.

If I do not see the cognitive act, then what is the derivation of the wonder? What neverthelesscompels and bothers the philosophical mind?

The conventional view frames the puzzle as the Body-Mind Problem (the hard problem of consciousness): The puzzle is supposedly stirred by the shift from the strictly physical (chemistry, instincts etc.) to the intentional or behavioral-intentional (will, intention, subjective qualia). In otherwords, how does a strictly non-physical substrate (subjective experience) emerge from systems governed by physics, chemistry, and biology?

But where or how do we witness or detect or realise that this emergence actually occurs?

What is the observable fact or identifiable phenomenon that launches or necessitates this philosophical wonder in the first place? Where do the misty roots of the body-mind problem truly originate (not historically; ontologically!)?

Perhaps the search for the source of philosophical wonder is more fundamental than the mysteries that wonder seeks to solve…

We proceed.