In most sciences, there are few things more prized than a counterintuitive result. It shows something surprising and forces us to reconsider our often tacit assumptions. In philosophy of mind a counterintuitive ‘result’ (for example, a mind-boggling implication of somebody’s ‘theory’ of perception, memory, consciousness or whatever) is typically taken as tantamount to a refutation. This affection for one’s current intuitions […] installs deep conservatism in the methods of philosophers.

On the phenomenal concept, mind is characterized by the way itfeels; on the psychological concept, mind is characterized by what itdoes. There should be no question of competition between these two notions of mind. Neither of them isthe correct analysis of mind. They cover different phenomena, both of which are quite real.