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Science can either devise novel methods for rigorously examining mental phenomena or continue to rely primarily on the study of the physical correlates of the mind, while mental phenomena themselves display none of the normal physical characteristics of matter such as mass, velocity, impenetrability, and spatial extension and location.
It is a natural human tendency to regard only the phenomena we are attending to as real, and things we fail to notice as epiphenomenal or simply nonexistent ... Since science is based on quantitative, objective observation, mental phenomena, which are qualitative and subjective, have largely been overlooked or marginalized. Even when scientists have turned their attention to mental phenomena, they have largely done so by posing questions about their neural causes and behavioral effects. Hardly any progress has been made in observing such phenomena directly, in the only way possible: by means of first-person observation, or introspection.
B. Alan Wallace, Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness











