ABSTRACT
FrancisCrick and Christof Koch were the first ones to discuss the idea of Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCCs) in the scientific press in a serious fashion. They started by assuming an unabashedly materialistic position and argued that eventually consciousness has to be explained by something at the neural level. Despite Crick and Koch's initial assertion, there is no reason to think that consciousness cannot be realized in various locations or by utilizing a number of different mechanisms. Any putative reduction of consciousness to some physical interaction seems to leave out the very thing it wants to explain: the conscious experience itself. There is necessarily a gap in any putative scientific account of consciousness and its target of explanation. And this of course creates problems for people like Crick and Koch, who believe that identifying the NCC will provide a theoretical explanation for what consciousness is.
