?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+NATURAL+ACCOUNT+OF+PHENOMENAL+CONSCIOUSNESS.&rft.creator=Velmans%2C+Max&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=Physicalists+commonly+argue+that+conscious+experiences+are+nothing+more+than+states+of+the+brain%2C+and+that+conscious+qualia+are+observer-independent%2C+physical+properties+of+the+external+world.+Although+this+assumes+the+'mantle+of+science%2C'+it+routinely+ignores+the+findings+of+science%2C+for+example+in+sensory+physiology%2C+perception%2C+psychophysics%2C+neuropsychology+and+comparative+psychology.+Consequently%2C+although+physicalism+aims+to+naturalise+consciousness%2C+it+gives+an+unnatural+account+of+it.+It+is+possible%2C+however%2C+to+develop+a+natural%2C+nonreductive%2C+reflexive+model+of+how+consciousness+relates+to+the+brain+and+the+physical+world.+This+paper+introduces+such+a+model+and+how+it+construes+the+nature+of+conscious+experience.+Within+this+model+the+physical+world+as+perceived+(the+phenomenal+world)+is+viewed+as+part+of+conscious+experience+not+apart+from+it.+While+in+everyday+life+we+treat+this+phenomenal+world+as+if+it+is+the+%22physical+world%22%2C+it+is+really+just+one+biologically+useful+representation+of+what+the+world+is+like+that+may+differ+in+many+respects+from+the+world+described+by+physics.+How+the+world+as+perceived+relates+to+the+world+as+described+by+physics+can+be+investigated+by+normal+science+(e.g.+through+the+study+of+sensory+physiology%2C+psychophysics+and+so+on).+This+model+of+consciousness+appears+to+be+consistent+with+both+third-person+evidence+of+how+the+brain+works+and+with+first-person+evidence+of+what+it+is+like+to+have+a+given+experience.+According+to+the+reflexive+model%2C+conscious+experiences+are+really+how+they+seem.+&rft.date=2001&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1813%2F1%2FNatural_account_of_CS.htm&rft.identifier=++Velmans%2C+Max++(2001)+A+NATURAL+ACCOUNT+OF+PHENOMENAL+CONSCIOUSNESS.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1813%2F