Our conscious experiences are said to possess a unique property called phenomenal consciousness. Why these and only these states of us have this property has proved to be an exceedingly difficult question for philosophers and scientists to answer. In fact, some have claimed that this question constitutes the hard problem of the mindbody problem, one which cannot be solved by the standard method...

Sometimes when we describe our own sensory experiences, seem to attribute experience itself the same sorts of familiar properties—such as shape or colour—as everyday physical objects. But how literally should understand such descriptions? Can there really be phenomenal elements aspects an which are, for example quite square? This paper examines these questions connect a wide range different com...