RE: NOVELTY. DOES IT REALLY "EXIST"?
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You have no intrinsic, direct experience of "hunger".
LOL, tell me this while I am starving and crave for something to eat. Say it to someone who has no tap water and must walk miles for a canister. It's an interesting thought but it diminishes what is felt as reality by all humans.
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Your nervous-system is relaying data to your brain.
You understand that data as "ravenous" or "parched" and take action to satiate yourself.
It's no different than a robot receiving a signal to return to its charging pad.
But it is something different. A human is not a robot. If he were a robot, you would not say human, but robot.
When it's not intrinsic, from where does it come? Hunger happens inside my body, not outside of it. And the directness of it is clearly an experience, what else is it other than direct and an experience?
You wouldn't talk that way, would you? Like: "My stomach signals to my brain that it needs some more biochemicals."
Otherwise you'd have to use a lot of vocabulary to be absolutely precise about all the signals and ongoings within your whole organism. You wouldn't have time for anything else and you'd need probably all day long to say the sentence "I am hungry". Meanwhile you would starve and faint. LOL :D
...actually, it's quite fascinating how many things happen all by themselves, in and on my body, without me having anything actively to do, like heart beat, vision, breathing, hair growing, digesting and all that jazz.
The "feeling" (experience) of "hunger" is a summary.
"Hunger" is the conscious alert of an orchestra of sub-conscious impulses.