ABSTRACT
How can we describe phenomenal consciousness accurately? It is well accepted that descr iptions of phenomena cannot be entirely theory free. As the philosopher Karl Popper puts it, even basic terms in science are ‘theory laden’. Thus, ‘observations, and even more observation statements and statements of experimental results, are always interpretations of the facts observed; they are interpretations in the light of theories’ (Popper, 1972, p. 107, note 3).
