The world that you (or I) consciously experience (the phenomenal
world) is, in its irreducible form, a global coherent volumetric space in which
you are the egocentric origin of all experience and action. The rich and
constantly changing content of your phenomenal world cannot exist outside of
your phenomenal 3D space that encompasses it.
Whatever your conscious
experience, it must be an experience of something somewhere in your egocentric
phenomenal world.
A final comment. When Noe claims that "… at the present time, we actually can't
give any satisfactory explanations about the nature of human experience in terms
of the functioning of the brain", it appears that he is unaware of a wealth of
recently published findings relating brain events to objective measures of
phenomenal experience. My own work argues strongly against Noe's pessimism
regarding brain function and human experience.
clipped from: www.edge.org