ABSTRACT
Philosophical reflection about the mind begins with a curious, even unsettling fact: the mind and its contents – sensations, thoughts, emotions, and the like – seem to be radically unlike anything physical. Consider the following:
• The mind is a conscious subject: its states have phenomenal feel. There is something that it is like to be in pain, say, or to imagine eating a strawberry. But what is physical lacks such feel. We may project phenomenal qualities, such as colors, on to physical objects. But the physical realm is in itself phenomenally lifeless.
