phenomenal consciousness

is an interpretation of consciousness that focuses on how there is something it is like to be the subject of sensations, beliefs, pains. It is infinitely more difficult to explain third-person consciousness.

The second way of understanding the mental phenomena is in terms of how there is a qualitative 'something it is like' to be the subject of those sensations, beliefs, pains, etc. This is what Chalmers calls 'phenomenal consciousness'. It is 'hard' to explain psychologically in terms of functions or adaptive usefulness.'

phenomenal consciousness, n.All

phenomenal consciousness