Before our ancestors began to pay attention to the qualia of mind, they were not all that different from other animals and plants, which merely react to the qualia around them. Plants react to light, acid-base balances in the soil, water, and other qualia in their landscapes; animals react to their own landmarks and pathways, inherited through evolutionary and qualiadelic relationships with their landscapes. Even atoms and molecule merely react to the qualia outside of them, which we know as “physical forces.” Consciousness was imposed upon our ancestors, too, from the outside, until we started to pay attention to the qualia within.
The mind is something more than brain and body and landscape — like anything, qualia makes it more than its parts combined.