ABSTRACT
The rush to image the neural correlates of conscious events can look more than a little like high-tech phrenology (Uttal 2001). Although feeling bumps on the skull and producing cranial maps has been replaced by a lot of coloured pictures and intracranial neural maps, the drive to reduce consciousness to something small remains the same. Still, it would be surprising were there nothing at all to the correlational evidence. What the neuroscientific evidence suggests instead is that conscious properties cannot be instantiated outside a neural environment. Those wary of even this much optimism counter that subjective perspectivity, intentionality and qualitative character are irreducible to anything neural. While we may not know exactly what the nature of these conscious properties is, reducing them to properties or neural assembly properties is mistaken.
