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== First rough definition ==''Phenomenal concepts'', roughly, are concepts which one forms when introspecting. They describe what conscious experience appears to be, how conscious experience presents itself to the introspecting subject.

== Importance ==It is important to separate distinguish phenomenal concepts from [[phenomenal experience (or experience in total)consciousness]] and similar concepts. If Models of consciousness generally seem to try to model phenomenal concepts are taken at face value, i.e. they are taken According to correctly to refer to experience[[illusionism]] or [[eliminativism]], they determine what models of consciousness should address. But one could also say that the relation between phenomenal concepts and experience phenomenal consciousness is a more complex, or non-trivialand complex, one, e.g. so that it would be a mistake to take phenomenal concepts as in [[illusionism]] or [[eliminativism]]guiding the construction of theories of consciousness.

In the literatureseveral publications, arguments are advanced which aim to show that special features of phenomenal concepts (which other concepts do not possess) are responsible for the illusion of there being used to explain why there might seem to be an a [[hard problem]] or [[explanatory gap]]. This "seeming" might be a result of the fact that phenomenal concepts are different in nature to physical concepts.